> Actually, It's my experience that Sun (and other vendors) do exactly > that for you when you buy their parts - at least for rotating drives, I > have no experience with SSD's. > > The Sun disk label shipped on all the drives is setup to make the drive > the standard size for that sun part number. They have to do this since > they (for many reasons) have many sources (diff. vendors, even diff. > parts from the same vendor) for the actual disks they use for a > particular Sun part number.
Actually, if there is a fdisk partition and/or disklabel on a drive when it arrives, I'm pretty sure that's irrelevant. Because when I first connect a new drive to the HBA, of course the HBA has to sign and initialize the drive at a lower level than what the OS normally sees. So unless I do some sort of special operation to tell the HBA to preserve/import a foreign disk, the HBA will make the disk blank before the OS sees it anyway. _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
