On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 02:18:30PM -0800, Freddie Cash wrote: > 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.
This is good (excellent) information to know -- thank you for clearing that up. > It's too bad this mis-information has basically become a meme. :( Such is the case with FreeBSD's ZFS in general, solely because of the fact that the number of people who can answer the deep technical questions are few. -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@koitsu.org | | UNIX Systems Administrator http://jdc.koitsu.org/ | | Mountain View, CA, US | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP 4BD6C0CB | _______________________________________________ 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"
