On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 09:48:08AM -0700, Eric Schrock wrote: > On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 12:45:52PM +0200, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: > > > > Will be nice to not EFI label disks, though:) Currently there is a > > problem with this - zpool created on Solaris is not recognized by > > FreeBSD, because FreeBSD claims GPT label is corrupted. On the other > > hand, creating ZFS on FreeBSD (on a raw disk) can be used under Solaris. > > > > FYI, the primary reason for using EFI labels is that they are > endian-neutral, unlike Solaris VTOC. The secondary reason is that they > are simpler and easier to use (at least on Solaris). > > I'm curious why FreeBSD claims the GPT label is corrupted. Is this > because FreeBSD doesn't understand EFI labels, our EFI label is bad, or > is there a bug in the FreeBSD EFI implementation?
I haven't investigated this yet. FreeBSD should understand EFI, so either the last two or a bug in Solaris EFI implementation:) I seem to recall similar problems on Linux with ZFS/FUSE... -- Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.wheel.pl [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer Am I Evil? Yes, I Am!
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