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Subject: Re: whats best pracfive for ZFS on a whole disc these days ?
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On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 23:20, Daniel O'Connor <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> wrot=
e:
> On Sat, 21 Nov 2009, Marius N=FCnnerich wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 14:27, Daniel O'Connor <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
> wrote:
>> > On Fri, 20 Nov 2009, Marius N=FCnnerich wrote:
>> >> > Actually that is an interesting point, the swap partitions don't
>> >> > have an entry in /dev/gptid, although perhaps that is because
>> >> > glabel has grabbed that node.
>> >>
>> >> If I remember correctly nodes vanish when another name for the
>> >> same device is opened. Maybe this happens for the other gpt labels
>> >> too?
>> >
>> > Hmm, but I have gptid ones corresponding to my ZFS partitions.. It
>> > seems like a bug.
>>
>> Maybe. Could you paste kern.geom.confdot, kern.geom.confxml and mount
>> output to pastie.org or the like.
>
> I've attached it..

Hmm, I do not see whats wrong here. ZFS already opened the devices and
I see no /dev/gpt/* entries. Maybe there is some bug with handling the
long gptid names. Maybe you try to detach ZFSfrom the devices, give
everything a short gpt label and try to use that.