ZFS uses EFI when a storage pool is created with whole disks. ZFS uses the old-style VTOC label when a storage pool is created with slices.
To be able to boot from a ZFS root pool, the storage pool must be created with slices. This is a new requirement in ZFS land, and is described in the doc pointer Richard provided previously: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/docs/zfsadmin.pdf Cindy Chris Ridd wrote: > Adrian Danielson wrote: > >>1. After the install I created a zfs mirror of the root disk c0t0d0 to >>c0t1d0, format shows the mirrored disk with sectors instead of cylinders, is >>this normal or correct? Is there a way to reverse this back to cylinders if >>it is not? Same goes for the external disk pool using SAN disk from the IBM >>SVC. > > > Format show sectors when the disk has an EFI label, and cylinders when > the disk has a Sun label. ZFS always uses EFI labels, so you're seeing > the right thing. > > You can change the label (blowing away the disk contents of course) > using format -e. The label menu changes with the -e flag to let you > choose the kind of label. > > Cheers, > > Chris > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
