I read that for performance reasons (using the disks write cache) it is advised to use whole disks rather than slices for zfs pools. In a dual-boot scenario with FreeBSD, Linux, Windows XP etc. (of course on another disk with partitions) are there any risks involved having such a disk without a partition table? It reminds me of FreeBSD's "dangerously dedicated" mode. From http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/faq/disks.html#DANGEROUSLY-DEDICATED
> So why it is called “dangerous”? A disk in this mode does not contain what > normal PC utilities would consider a valid fdisk(8) table. Depending on how > well they have been designed, they might complain at you once they are > getting in contact with such a disk, or even worse, they might damage the BSD > bootstrap without even asking or notifying you. Is there any experience that dedicated zfs disks might be harmed by a not zfs aware OS/software? This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
