Zpool on raw disk and weird GEOM complaint

Mon Jun 29 14:50:57 UTC 2009

Hi!

On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 04:41:14PM +0200, Marius Nünnerich wrote:
> OK, there is the GPT signature which reads "EFI PART" at offset 0x200.
> What was on the disk before?

Nothing. Factory new.

> I think it should look different. There is a document from sun which
> explains the ZFS ondisk format and and I don't remember it to look
> like a MBR and GPT ;) Sorry, I don't have the time right now to dig
> through it.

As I found with Google, ZFS does put a EFI/GPT label on the
disk if you give it an entire disk as a vdev. Looks like
it's not understood by GEOM_PART_GPT.

Thanks,
Patrick
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