zfs: Use wholedisk or not?

[Joao Barros]

On 8/27/07, Simun Mikecin <numisemis at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Is it safe to create zpool using whole disks instead of partitioning (making a GPT partition)?
> I know that using whole disks gives the benefit that zfs will to try to enable disk write cache on it.

Not only is it safe, it's recommended by Sun.

> But I'm scared of what would happen if I plug such a disk on some other machine, that runs some
> other OS (Windows for example) since that disk will not have a valid MBR.
> Will it try to restore a valid MBR and destroy a zpool in the process?

Windows does not restore MBRs unless you ask it to.

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Joao Barros