Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2013 07:27:19 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: "Reed A. Cartwright" <cartwright@asu.edu> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZFS and Glabel Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1306080713530.83022@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <CALOkxuzH81UFuVZifJNxyuo6%2Bhu9mCPB1TC91dn5fkjVLFqTKw@mail.gmail.com> References: <CALOkxuzH81UFuVZifJNxyuo6%2Bhu9mCPB1TC91dn5fkjVLFqTKw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, 8 Jun 2013, Reed A. Cartwright wrote: > I currently have a raidz2 pool that uses whole disks: da6, da7, etc. > I want to label these using glabel and have zfs mount them using the > labels. This way, if an HDD fails, I will be able to easily replace > the drive. GPT labels are better. They work through the glabel mechanism but don't have any extra metadata at the end of the disk. > So my questions are a follows: > > 1) Can glabel be used with zfs and raw disks? Should it be? Yes to the first. "Should" is a judgement call, so it depends on you and your situation. This forum thread talks about GPT labels a bit. It also refers Jeremy Chadwick's hardware "wiring-down" solution (also a judgement call). http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=39410
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