whats best pracfive for ZFS on a whole disc these days ?

[Marius Nünnerich]

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 13:44, Tom Evans <tevans.uk at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Daniel O'Connor <doconnor at gsoft.com.au>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, 19 Nov 2009, Marius Nünnerich wrote:
>> > >  operator    0, 164 Oct 21 15:34
>> > > /dev/gptid/6866d8b0-a8ac-11de-8e07-00241dd192cc
>> >
>> > Have you tried naming the GPT partitions and using /dev/gpt/* ?
>>
>> Nope, how would I do that?
>>
>> I'd be surprised if it worked TBH..
>>
>
> Use the -l flag to gpart when creating the partitions. I'm not sure if there
> is a way to label them after the fact. I found it led to a much more
> descriptive/reliable pool, as I can plug the disks in anywhere and get the
> same results:
>
>   pool: tank
>  state: ONLINE
>  scrub: none requested
> config:
>
>     NAME                  STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
>     tank                  ONLINE       0     0     0
>       raidz1              ONLINE       0     0     0
>         gpt/samsung15-1   ONLINE       0     0     0
>         gpt/samsung15-2   ONLINE       0     0     0
>         gpt/samsung15-3   ONLINE       0     0     0
>         gpt/samsung15-4   ONLINE       0     0     0
>         gpt/seagate15-1   ONLINE       0     0     0
>         gpt/seagate15-2   ONLINE       0     0     0
>
> I use the geom name 'gpt/foo' when referring to the disks in zpool. All
> works perfectly.
>

I never tried it but maybe gpart modify -l works too.