Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 11:46:12 +0200 From: Volodymyr Kostyrko <c.kworr@gmail.com> To: james@mansionfamily.plus.com Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ZFS - whole disk or partition or BSD slice? Message-ID: <510648E4.2080100@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5105BEE4.4030402@mansionfamily.plus.com> References: <5105BEE4.4030402@mansionfamily.plus.com>
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28.01.2013 01:57, james: > I have a 9.1 system with some SATA disks in RAIDZ, upgraded from 9.0. > > The disks are all the same type, and I formatted them for FreeBSD and > put ZFS in a slice covering most of them. > > I have seen suggestions for OpenIndiana etc that it is better to let ZFS > have the whole raw disk and that this can control the way it manages the > disk writeback mode. My home computer is set up in the dedicated mode. No grave difference. Not even a scratch. > Does this apply to FreeBSD and ZFS too? No. > 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. -- Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.
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