From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 29 15:24:28 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23484E48 for ; Tue, 29 Jan 2013 15:24:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from paul@kraus-haus.org) Received: from mail-vc0-f172.google.com (mail-vc0-f172.google.com [209.85.220.172]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3A2E1E7 for ; Tue, 29 Jan 2013 15:24:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-vc0-f172.google.com with SMTP id l6so337535vcl.31 for ; Tue, 29 Jan 2013 07:24:27 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:subject:mime-version:content-type:from:in-reply-to:date :content-transfer-encoding:message-id:references:to:x-mailer :x-gm-message-state; bh=0bmP9eda60FNixjeXR35T/X2BlEUShU/qhFIqQ9l+sQ=; b=Gkwh8BC8ajz4oFUJuKlj+36lC7MrKbetwhM7me3qzqagu3O4wHNy3/THLDaSyax1d8 FwU1Hf6ExIRIH6RW6yLzbMA5yF/JpjVOGy4ZUmYFm3gklKR44qWDkh1YesI/dFLYF7nx tN6cLEu5OwGIkdsAcTpwuENOKaF+l7PrgyYoURPPKQH3upWVTV8iDG/3egntnc8DIVvM +orQysNOd8rMqIYOjrHSUw4Jp7QWFfsSP6VpRJveffCF39Vr/MF0wff0zYoK+nFyGGTg SsvFfwtnpjclZ7JXdlsk7uxA4s6SZdOHU8wri42LCd2FB4MZSCF/hkreXhPeBTm5naB4 nD6Q== X-Received: by 10.220.219.9 with SMTP id hs9mr1315118vcb.68.1359473067026; Tue, 29 Jan 2013 07:24:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from mini1.kraus-haus.org ([96.236.21.119]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id cd19sm8587863vdb.20.2013.01.29.07.24.25 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Tue, 29 Jan 2013 07:24:25 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: ZFS - whole disk or partition or BSD slice? Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1085) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Paul Kraus In-Reply-To: <05.C7.10746.CD537015@smtp02.insight.synacor.com> Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 10:24:23 -0500 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: References: <05.C7.10746.CD537015@smtp02.insight.synacor.com> To: FreeBSD Mailing List X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1085) X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQlcr6Nr/3/3vX4iYqRuzZE3y7Pj5iIs4gRHZ8ZktEPTaxtW1HCU+Y2F2qUxYhjz4umR7V8w X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 15:24:28 -0000 On Jan 28, 2013, at 9:37 PM, Thomas Mueller wrote: >> Presumably the disks are currently FreeBSD-specific. If I used raw >> disks instead of slices, could I read them from a Solaris system too? > > ^ I'm mostly sure you would be able to read disks from Solaris/x86. > ^ However Solaris/Sparc uses another labeling scheme. If you want to be > ^ fully compatible with other system GPT is a better choice. > > Is GPT compatible with Solaris, can Solaris access a GPT disk? AFAIK, none of the Solaris derived OSes can read a GPT disk label. -- Paul Kraus Deputy Technical Director, LoneStarCon 3 Sound Coordinator, Schenectady Light Opera Company