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From: Pete French <petefrench@ticketswitch.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:19:54 +0000
Subject: whats best pracfive for ZFS on a whole disc these days ?
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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 :-)

cheers,

-pete.