I have to drives with the same slices and I get an odd error if I try and create a pool on one drive, but not the other:
Part Tag Flag Cylinders Size Blocks 0 swap wu 3 - 264 2.01GB (262/0/0) 4209030 1 root wm 265 - 2304 15.63GB (2040/0/0) 32772600 2 backup wu 0 - 38911 298.08GB (38912/0/0) 625121280 3 unassigned wm 2305 - 4344 15.63GB (2040/0/0) 32772600 4 unassigned wm 4345 - 6404 15.78GB (2060/0/0) 33093900 5 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0 6 unassigned wm 6385 - 6393 70.60MB (9/0/0) 144585 7 unassigned wm 6394 - 38909 249.09GB (32516/0/0) 522369540 8 boot wu 0 - 0 7.84MB (1/0/0) 16065 9 alternates wm 1 - 2 15.69MB (2/0/0) 32130 bash-3.00# zpool create test c0d0s7 bash-3.00# zpool destroy test bash-3.00# zpool create test c11d0s7 invalid vdev specification use '-f' to override the following errors: /dev/dsk/c11d0s7 overlaps with /dev/dsk/c11d0s2 I'd have thought that every slice overlaps s2! Ian _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss