whats best pracfive for ZFS on a whole disc these days ?

[Larry Rosenman]

On Sat, November 14, 2009 6:03 pm, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> Larry Rosenman wrote:
>> 	NAME        STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
>> 	vault       ONLINE       0     0     0
>> 	  raidz1    ONLINE       0     0     0
>> 	    ada1    ONLINE       0     0     0
>> 	    ada2    ONLINE       0     0     0
>> 	    ada3    ONLINE       0     0     0
>> 	    ada4    ONLINE       0     0     0
>> 	    ada5    ONLINE       0     0     0
>> 	  ada0s1f   ONLINE       0     0     0
>> 	  ada0s1e   ONLINE       0     0     0
>> 	  ada0s1d   ONLINE       0     0     0
>>
>> errors: No known data errors
>> # glabel label disk01 /dev/ada1
>> glabel: Can't store metadata on /dev/ada1: Operation not permitted.
>> #
>>
>> Ideas?
>
> This is because glabel writes to the end of the disk (which is what it
> uses to persist the label), if you haven't already labelled them it
> can't add a one without destroying some data.
>
> I don't have this problem because I used GPT as a container and it has a
> UUID for each partition made.

That makes sense.  I guess if I ever rebuild this one, I'll be better
about it :)

and, now that we have raidz boot, I'll just make the whole mess ZFS. :)

LER

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