Re: gpt type for zfs?

[Brad Spencer <brad%anduin.eldar.org@localhost>]

Sevan Janiyan <venture37%geeklan.co.uk@localhost> writes:

> On 28/03/2020 21:56, Thomas Klausner wrote:
>> Are ZFS users on NetBSD using fbsd-zfs or avoiding gpt? :)
>
> ZFS doesn't actually care the filesystem time, it's happy to initialise
> whatever device node you point at it. I actually partition things up in
> sysinst as fat32 partitions.
>
> Regarding GPT, I connected up a pool which I created on MacOS some years
> back to my laptop running 9.99.52, turns out I'd used a GPT scheme, I
> couldn't actually import the pool because dk(4) hogs the device. (I
> meant to try disabling dk support and retrying but haven't gotten around
> to it yet).
>
>
> Sevan


I am a little suprised that the import didn't work.  "zpool import"
didn't find anything to import??  I currently use a gpt presented disk
between NetBSD and FreeBSD without any particular problems.



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