ZFS whole_disk=0

Paul Schenkeveld fb-fs at psconsult.nl
Sun Nov 22 14:40:25 UTC 2009


Hi,

I noticed (on 8.0-RC2 amd64) that zdb always reports whole_disk=0
even when using /dev/ad6 as vdev.

How do I tell zpool that my vdev is really a whole disk?

Is there a big performace penalty (or other disadvantage) when
whole_disk == 0?

Regards,

Paul Schenkeveld


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