Re: Possibly Broken GPT from Solaris

[Richard Laager]

On Fri, 2012-01-20 at 19:57 -0800, Seth Goldberg wrote:
> 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).

Excellent! And gdisk has an is being improved to handle the existing
partition tables. Hopefully parted will be too.

On a disk used in a zpool, Solaris creates a 16K partition #9 at the end
of the disk with a GUID of 6A945A3B-1DD2-11B2-99A6-080020736631. What is
that partition for? I don't think I've seen it ever contain any data.

I've seen some people refer to it as an EFI system partition, but that
should have a GUID of C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B, right?

-- 
Richard

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