On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 7:58 PM, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk <r...@karlsbakk.net> wrote:
>> IIRC if you pass a DISK to "zpool create", it would create
>> partition/slice on it, either with SMI (the default for rpool) or EFI
>> (the default for other pool). When the disk size changes (like when
>> you change LUN size on storage node side), you PROBABLY need to resize
>> the partition/slice as well.
>
> zpool create won't create a partition or slice, it'll just use the whole 
> drive unless you give it a partition or slice.

Do you have some reference backing it up? It creates EFI label on my
system when I give it whole disk.

There's even a warning on ZFS troubleshooting guide regarding root
pool: "make sure you specify a bootable slice and not the whole disk
because the latter may try to install an EFI label"
(http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Troubleshooting_Guide)

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Fajar
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