> [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> > But I don't see how copying a label will do any good.  Won't that just
> > confuse ZFS and make it think it's talking to one of the other disks? 
> 
> No, the disk label doesn't contain any ZFS info, it just tells the disk
> drivers (scsi_vhci, in this case) where the disk slices start/end.  Your
> typical ZFS pool will be made up of identical drives/components, so copying
> them is an easy way to make sure they're all the same (that's assuming you
> have a working label to copy).

Ahh, yes.  I misread the other message as suggesting to copy a ZFS
label, not the disk/EFI label.  Never mind!  :-)

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Darren Dunham                                           [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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