On Mar 6, 2010, at 2:42 PM, Eric D. Mudama wrote: > On Sat, Mar 6 at 3:15, Abdullah Al-Dahlawi wrote: >> >> hdd ONLINE 0 0 0 >> c7t0d0p3 ONLINE 0 0 0 >> >> rpool ONLINE 0 0 0 >> c7t0d0s0 ONLINE 0 0 0 > > I trimmed your zpool status output a bit. > > Are those two the same device? I'm barely familiar with solaris > partitioning and labels... what's the difference between a slice and a > partition?
In this context, "partition" is an fdisk partition and "slice" is a SMI or EFI labeled slice. The SMI or EFI labeling tools (format, prtvtoc, and ftmhard) do not work on partitions. So when you choose to use ZFS on a partition, you have no tools other than fdisk to manage the space. This can lead to confusion... a bad thing. -- richard ZFS storage and performance consulting at http://www.RichardElling.com ZFS training on deduplication, NexentaStor, and NAS performance http://nexenta-atlanta.eventbrite.com (March 16-18, 2010) _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
