Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 16:40:14 +0700 From: Edho P Arief <edhoprima@gmail.com> To: krad <kraduk@gmail.com> Cc: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@scsiguy.com>, Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@freebsd.org>, fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [CFR][ZFS] Add "zpool labelclear" command. Message-ID: <BANLkTinAOphu1MfP_TGdbN0G1S7LoOd9Og@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <BANLkTi=_m0kXdc5AwuyD5rVbhgs9qqfRtg@mail.gmail.com> References: <4DF7CDD0.8040108@scsiguy.com> <20110615120524.GI1975@garage.freebsd.pl> <4DF8ACD3.1070202@scsiguy.com> <F15F5657-9043-4AD6-8AA7-FD8E5DB8C24C@itassistans.se> <BANLkTin4c1i4-V%2B3OU3w5hae2%2BS66Wsacg@mail.gmail.com> <BANLkTi=_m0kXdc5AwuyD5rVbhgs9qqfRtg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 4:37 PM, Edho P Arief <edhoprima@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 4:02 PM, krad <kraduk@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Its worth noting that its not necessarily a good idea to let zfs handle a >> raw disk. There is a good argument that you should partition/slice it up >> with a gig or so less capacity than the drive has.This is due to all drives >> X TB capacity not being equal. One block less and you new 2TB drive wont >> work in you existing array. > > Actually it will. At least up to 10 MB based on my previous experience > (under openindiana oi_148, at least). > It also must be noted that giving raw device to solaris' zpool doesn't make it to use entire disk - zpool command automatically creates gpt label with two partitions (of type usr and reserved) and creates the pool on the usr partition (not entire disk).home | help
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