On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 2:09 PM, Jeremy Chadwick <j...@koitsu.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 01:09:41PM +0200, Andriy Gapon wrote: > > > > - Disks are GPT and are *partitioned, and ZFS refers to the partitions > > > not the raw disk -- this matters (honest, it really does; the ZFS > > > code handles things differently with raw disks) > > > > Not on FreeBSD as far I can see. > > My statement comes from here (first line in particular): > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2013-January/248697.html > > If this is wrong/false, then this furthers my point about kernel folks > who are in-the-know needing to chime in and help stop the > misinformation. The rest of us are just end-users, often misinformed. > This has been false from the very first import of ZFS into FreeBSD 7-STABLE. Pawel even mentions that GEOM allows the use of the cache on partitions with ZFS somewhere around that time frame. Considering he did the initial import of ZFS into FreeBSD, I don't think you can find a more canonical answer. :) This is one of the biggest differences between the Solaris-based ZFS and the FreeBSD-based ZFS. It's too bad this mis-information has basically become a meme. :( -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
