On Jan 20, 2012, at 11:31 PM, Richard Laager wrote: > 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.
That partition is used to store device ID information (but I'm not exactly sure when it's used -- I'll have to check on that). > > 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? Right -- this isn't the ESP, it's what we call the "Reserved" partition (reserved to store device ID information). Thanks, --S > > -- > Richard