zpool component names - gpt vs. gptid

[Trond Endrestøl]

On Wed, 5 Nov 2014 09:06-0000, Arthur Chance wrote:

> These days I use GPT labelled partitions (/dev/gpt/<label>) exclusively when
> creating zfs pools. However, on my latest box, where I have two pools each
> with a single component, "zpool status" lists the components as gptid/<uuid>
> rather than gpt/<label>
> 
> Is there any way to persuade zfs/zpool to use the GPT label devices rather
> than the gptid devices? Failing that, how do you map gptid's back to the
> underlying disk partitions? It's obvious in this case, but I'm building a new
> file server with eight identical disks in a raidz2 set up and am worried how
> I'll identify which disk has problems in the future.

Look at: zpool import -d /dev/gpt some-zpool

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