[caiman-discuss] AI and DC manifest file common items

[Kyle McDonald]

Dave Miner wrote:
>>>> Items specific to DC only, and why:
>>>> ===================================
>>>> - Disk slice information:
>>>>   - DC needs for partitioning memory into file systems) ?
>>>>   - Not relevant for AI manifests as will install using ZFS
>>>>         
>>> I don't understand the "DC needs...".  I'm not entirely convinced that 
>>> AI won't have a need to be able to specify slices, even with ZFS.
>>>       
>> I put a question after the DC needs because I wasn't sure.  Thinking 
>> more on this, as long as the proto area fits onto the media, why have 
>> slices.  May not be necessary.
>>
>> What would be an example of needing disk slice info when using ZFS?  
>> Installed systems with only ZFS filesystems don't have disk slices.  Or 
>> am I missing something?
>>     
>
> Look carefully.  We still have slices since we can't yet boot from GPT 
> labels, we just only create one (two, actually, at the moment since swap 
> to ZFS isn't quite right yet).  There may well be reasons why someone 
> would want to slice the disk, I don't see a reason to prohibit it here 
> even though we don't allow it in the interactive installer.
>
> ...
>   
I'm guessing by 'slices' you mean dividing up the Solaris fdisk 
partition further?

Or are you talking about 'slicing' the physical disk here?

   -Kyle