Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:38:55 -0500 From: Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org> To: Pete French <petefrench@ticketswitch.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: whats best pracfive for ZFS on a whole disc these days ? Message-ID: <1256571535.2502.221.camel@balrog.2hip.net> In-Reply-To: <E1N2NcA-0004c4-CE@dilbert.ticketswitch.com> References: <E1N2NcA-0004c4-CE@dilbert.ticketswitch.com>
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On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 11:19 +0000, Pete French wrote: > just about to build a new ZFS based system and I was wondering > what the recommended way to dedicate a whole disc to ZFS is > these days. Should I just give it 'da1', 'da2' etc as I have > done in the past, or is it better to use GPT to create a > partition over the whole disc, which is marked as > being for freebsd-zfs ? > > Not that I have had any problems with simply using bare > drives, but the phrase 'dangerously dedicated' does keep > nagging at me, hence considering the GPT route :-) Others may have different opinions, but if your drives are dedicated to zfs and you don't intend to try and boot from them, I see no reason not to continue giving the whole disk to zfs. robert. > cheers, > > -pete. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org> FreeBSD
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