On Tue, 21 Apr 2020 at 10:58, Michael van Elst <mlel...@serpens.de> wrote: > > cryintotheblue...@gmail.com (Sad Clouds) writes: > > >Hi, assuming I'm using a system that doesn't require UEFI and disks are > >smaller than 2TB in size. Is there any advantage of using GPT vs the > >old disklabel scheme? Also if I want to use a partition (not whole > >disk) for ZFS, are there any weird interaction/restrictions with GPT? > > Advantage might be portability and the availability of partition names. > > For ZFS it's best to use whole disks (and multiple of these). If you > want to use a partition, it doesn't really matter if it is a slice > (with disklabel) or wedge (with GPT).
One issue - importing zpools from disklabel partitions does not Just Work (wedges are OK). You have to create a new dev directory with just the relevant device nodes). Only an issue if you need to import (eg disks renumbered) David
