From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 15 00:03:54 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 174CF106566B for ; Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:03:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B28E8FC08 for ; Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:03:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.208] (m1-3.customer.lyse.net [213.167.96.196] (may be forged)) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id nAF03eSp014962 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sun, 15 Nov 2009 10:33:49 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: <4AFF455A.90001@gsoft.com.au> Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 01:03:38 +0100 From: "Daniel O'Connor" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Larry Rosenman References: <200910271902.19618.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <20091027104316.dsp7kikkoogo80gw@www.goldsword.com> <200910281112.06300.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <493EE416-62CE-4EA4-81A7-8F802789D5DD@lassitu.de> <4AFF40B1.3040705@gsoft.com.au> <2aed0fc0af06c5fb17495e8925214ac7.squirrel@webmail.lerctr.org> In-Reply-To: <2aed0fc0af06c5fb17495e8925214ac7.squirrel@webmail.lerctr.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -2.212 () BAYES_00,RDNS_NONE X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Stefan Bethke Subject: Re: whats best pracfive for ZFS on a whole disc these days ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:03:54 -0000 Larry Rosenman wrote: > NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM > vault ONLINE 0 0 0 > raidz1 ONLINE 0 0 0 > ada1 ONLINE 0 0 0 > ada2 ONLINE 0 0 0 > ada3 ONLINE 0 0 0 > ada4 ONLINE 0 0 0 > ada5 ONLINE 0 0 0 > ada0s1f ONLINE 0 0 0 > ada0s1e ONLINE 0 0 0 > ada0s1d ONLINE 0 0 0 > > errors: No known data errors > # glabel label disk01 /dev/ada1 > glabel: Can't store metadata on /dev/ada1: Operation not permitted. > # > > Ideas? This is because glabel writes to the end of the disk (which is what it uses to persist the label), if you haven't already labelled them it can't add a one without destroying some data. I don't have this problem because I used GPT as a container and it has a UUID for each partition made. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C