2012-06-10 16:30, michelle wrote:
To test the 3tb drive in a Linux system, before I trusted it to the server, I did create a partition on it; however my understanding is that when I give a zfs command at device level ... zpool replace data c2t3d0 c2t5d0 ... it shouldn't matter what partitions are on the device.
I did not try to give ZFS disks with random pre-existing partition tables - I either had cleared them or pre-created to my liking. I am not sure that ZFS would quietly recreate a table if one exists, and/or that it would change MSDOS/MBR tables to EFI/GPT (there was discussion of that on the dev list recently), as well as I am not certain it won't ;) So, when you get the 3Tb disk into the system, you might want to revise its partitioning (now, likely, after ZFS tried to do someting to it). If ZFS failed to change the partitioning stuff safely - maybe that was what it complained about?.. HTH, //Jim _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
