ZFS - whole disk or partition or BSD slice?

[Paul Kraus]

On Jan 28, 2013, at 9:37 PM, Thomas Mueller wrote:

>> Presumably the disks are currently FreeBSD-specific.  If I used raw
>> disks instead of slices, could I read them from a Solaris system too?
> 
> ^ I'm mostly sure you would be able to read disks from Solaris/x86.
> ^ However Solaris/Sparc uses another labeling scheme. If you want to be
> ^ fully compatible with other system GPT is a better choice.
> 
> Is GPT compatible with Solaris, can Solaris access a GPT disk?

AFAIK, none of the Solaris derived OSes can read a GPT disk label.

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