Using GTP and glabel for ZFS arrays

[Daniel O'Connor]

On 23/07/2010, at 24:56, Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote:

> 22.07.2010 06:05, Dan Langille wrote:
>> Create a new partition within that scheme:
>> 
>> gpart add -b 34 -s SOMEVALUE -t freebsd-zfs ad0
>> 
>> Why '-b 34'? Randi pointed me to
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table where it explains what
>> the first 33 LBA are used for. It's not for us to use here.
> 
> gpart is not so dumb to not protect this space. If you don't specify -b when creating first partition it automagically defaults to 34.

Maybe it should default to 40 to get 4k alignment..?
(Probably a POLA/legacy issue there)

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