If you're dedicating the disk to a single task (data, SLOG, L2ARC) then
absolutely. If you're splitting tasks and wanting to make a drive do two
things, like SLOG and L2ARC, then you have to do this.
Some of the confusion here is between what is a traditional FDISK
partition (p1, p2, p3, p4, etc.) and what is a Solaris slice (s0 - s9), which
lives inside a FDISK partition on x86.
-Phil
On Jan 4, 2013, at 12:57 PM, Robert Milkowski wrote:
>
>> Personally, I'd recommend putting a standard Solaris fdisk
>> partition on the drive and creating the two slices under that.
>
> Why? In most cases giving zfs an entire disk is the best option.
> I wouldn't bother with any manual partitioning.
>
> --
> Robert Milkowski
> http://milek.blogspot.com
>
>
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