On Mon, October 26, 2009 13:38, Robert Noland wrote: > 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.
hear somewhere (current@ or stable@) that this may give hard time in case of disk replacement. I may not find exact the same size and trouble may com from this. never tried though. please correct me if I'm wrong. matheus -- We will call you cygnus, The God of balance you shall be A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"