Re: Possibly Broken GPT from Solaris

[Seth Goldberg]

Hi There,

  We are in the process of fixing our GPT handling to be spec-compliant, so 
things should improve in the future.  That said, parted does not honor the # of 
partition field, which is the source of the problem (well, the source of the 
problem is that # of partition should be at least 128, but Linux can apparently 
deal with this better).

 --S

On Jan 20, 2012, at 5:26 PM, Richard Laager wrote:

> Do you have any thoughts on this?
> http://groups.google.com/a/zfsonlinux.org/group/zfs-devel/browse_thread/thread/04a5b2a71114f66e
> 
> You can download a compressed sample disk image of a newly created
> whole-disk zpool from Solaris here:
> http://coderich.net/solaris-data.img.tgz
> 
> It's 100 MB disk image, but as a sparse file only takes up about 3 MB.
> Compressed, it's 144 KB.
> 
> Is the GPT table really broken, or is this a bug in parted? If it's
> really broken, is this something worth working around so people don't
> accidentally destroy their partition tables?
> 
> -- 
> Richard
> <solaris-data.img.tgz>