Hello,
after using a FreeNAS system in our company several years now, I started to playing around at home with FreeBSD with a ZFS-mirror.
But for one thing, I have a question:
creating a pool with a disk, attaching a bigger one to the pool to make a mirror and replacing the first smaler one with also a bigger one and autoexpanded etc.
All this I've done without partition the disk or used gpart.
Would it be better (or neccessary) to partition the disks before with gpart or doesn't it matter if I use the whole disks for ZFS. (I only found examples on the WEB, where gpart is used before...)
Would be nice if you would give me a bit of background about it.
Thanks in advance,
susannej.
after using a FreeNAS system in our company several years now, I started to playing around at home with FreeBSD with a ZFS-mirror.
But for one thing, I have a question:
creating a pool with a disk, attaching a bigger one to the pool to make a mirror and replacing the first smaler one with also a bigger one and autoexpanded etc.
All this I've done without partition the disk or used gpart.
Would it be better (or neccessary) to partition the disks before with gpart or doesn't it matter if I use the whole disks for ZFS. (I only found examples on the WEB, where gpart is used before...)
Would be nice if you would give me a bit of background about it.
Thanks in advance,
susannej.