From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 21 15:22:41 2010 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 F2BD11065672 for ; Wed, 21 Jul 2010 15:22:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fjwcash@gmail.com) Received: from mail-iw0-f182.google.com (mail-iw0-f182.google.com [209.85.214.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B909C8FC19 for ; Wed, 21 Jul 2010 15:22:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iwn35 with SMTP id 35so8713132iwn.13 for ; Wed, 21 Jul 2010 08:22:40 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=uCO7m4GrhLMQifG8fHuZtTne4nXBWsAWZpZ0erTF4nI=; b=Wbv8Wwg/PH360+Z40/de7HajbowGk+SQjlJPuyctwI8Xvk9ESbDGsFF9qVDI2GHOk8 hg9AuDGKB6rJCbube8P3zX6hWv/UW2/KlMq91/+PTWzhdxp9A/UhIfQ+cXkK+cG0AWZI u3+lp05Rak6mDsJtEyGc73+4MKpeADTa6+Lqo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=LY9N18+1VWoYfAqW7GVVdKh/BSHUn43Acl+IpByd0frYHYnakG0vQEcrdy+MF2QmmF N0uCp2ayYH0Yk6M5dfh6balRCvM+c/GinoA4RBxZnz6X6QWxKo/35yiClAWE+bPuNUya rC74qFRFnjHh9QqR/lzzGFUbroJ9iZ9rJcJuo= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.231.182.201 with SMTP id cd9mr318671ibb.21.1279725760793; Wed, 21 Jul 2010 08:22:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.231.161.208 with HTTP; Wed, 21 Jul 2010 08:22:40 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <578438.38753.qm@web50502.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 08:22:40 -0700 Message-ID: From: Freddie Cash To: FreeBSD Stable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: Problems replacing failing drive in ZFS pool 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: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 15:22:42 -0000 On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 11:43 PM, Charles Sprickman wrote: > Two things: > > -What's the preferred labelling method for disks that will be used with z= fs > these days? =C2=A0geom_label or gpt labels? =C2=A0I've been using the lat= ter and I > find them a little simpler. If the disks will only be used in FreeBSD systems, and you are using the entire disk for ZFS (no partitioning), then glabel works well, and is the easiest to use. If you want to be able to move the disks between FreeBSD, OpenSolaris, Solaris, ZFS-FUSE on Linux, etc, then you need to use GPT labels. glabel is not portable. I have not used gpart, so don't know if you can label the disk or just partitions on the disk. --=20 Freddie Cash fjwcash@gmail.com