ZFS on entire disks setup

[Dmitry Morozovsky]

On Thu, 29 Oct 2009, krad wrote:

k> > SB> > is there a way to configure ZFS-only setup without partitions?

[snip]

k> > Well, after all, I've managed to boot 8.0-RC2/amd64 from 1+0 zpool without
k> > either UFS or GPT/MBR.  Will test further.
k> >
k> > As for the source of previous failure -- It seems bootfs property in my
k> > previous experiment did not set properly...
k> 
k> why do you want to use it without a partition label?

Well, consider it brain-damaged (though successful) experiment ;-P

Seriously, making dedicated machine, I'd betted skip unneeded layers.  All our 
servers currently work without real MBRs, and previous ZFS based ones are GPT.

-- 
Sincerely,
D.Marck                                     [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
[ FreeBSD committer:                                 marck at FreeBSD.org ]
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