zfs: Use wholedisk or not?

[Simun Mikecin]

--- Joao Barros <joao.barros at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

When creating zpool on the whole disk on Solaris it will create EFI label. FreeBSD does not do
that.



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