Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:46:48 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: Pete French <petefrench@ticketswitch.com> Subject: Re: whats best pracfive for ZFS on a whole disc these days ? Message-ID: <200910271646.55227.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <E1N2NcA-0004c4-CE@dilbert.ticketswitch.com> References: <E1N2NcA-0004c4-CE@dilbert.ticketswitch.com>
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--nextPart5562399.cs5amNFbbN Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Mon, 26 Oct 2009, 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 :-) I put GPT's on mine and reserved a few Gb on each so I could swap/dump=20 on them (4Gb on each - overkill but kept them all the same size). Unfortunately it appears ZFS doesn't search for GPT partitions so if you=20 have them and swap the drives around you need to fix it up manually. =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart5562399.cs5amNFbbN Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBK5pBX5ZPcIHs/zowRAhOHAJ9Ai0O7w+G8nW5M0v0aVSrQcGLbjgCfa/gY ym3jAbUgkSr3n7xPC3aZRDY= =6d2w -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart5562399.cs5amNFbbN--
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