>>> An EFI label isn't "OS specific formatting"! >> >> It is. Not all OS will read an EFI label. > > You misunderstood the concept of OS specific, I feel. EFI is indeed OS > independent; however, that doesn't necesssarily imply that all OSs can read > EFI disks. My Commodore 128D could boot CP/M but couldn't understand FAT32 - > that doesn't mean that therefore FAT32 isn't OS independent either.
PC partition table is also not OS specific and is OS independent. Most partition tables are OS independent, they ar often specified by how you boot the platform. On a PC EFI is very OS specific as most OS on that platform does not support EFI. EFI is platform independent for solaris. Solaris on sparc and solaris on PC uses different partition tables unless you use EFI as EFI is supported by Solaris on sparc and x86. This is manly a Solaris problem as there is no reason for Solaris on sparc to not read a pc partition table. The reason that EFI is used by default for zfs is that it is platform independent (and that it can handle bigger disks on sparc). Unless you have to boot from it, then it is very platform dependent... But the point was that ZFS on solaris have to have a partition table, so you must make a partition table on FreeBSD that solaris can read. It does not mater if the format is OS specific or not. _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
