OpenSolaris

Flag-day for PSARC 2006/379 Solaris on Extended Partition

Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:10:11 +0530
From: Sheshadri Vasudevan <Sheshadri.Vasudevan at sun dot com>
To: onnv-gate at onnv dot eng dot sun dot com, on-all at eng dot sun dot com
Subject: Flag-day for PSARC 2006/379 Solaris on Extended Partition

If you are not using solaris on x86/amd64 platform, you can safely
ignore the rest of this message.

With the putback of :

            PSARC 2006/379 Solaris on Extended Partition
            6644364 Extended partitions need to be supported on Solaris

Solaris will have the capability to manage logical drives in an
extended partition. The following are the visible changes that this
integration introduces:

          * A new submenu in fdisk(1M) to manage logical drives.

          * Device nodes starting from cX[tX]dXp5 to cX[tX]dXp36 for
logical drives.
            (A maximum of 32 logical drives are supported).

For any questions or issues on this, please send an e-mail to
extpart-iteam at sun dot com

Regards,
Shesha/Pavan