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a partition rather than the entire disk. This
differs from recommendations made by the Solaris
documentation.
+
+
+ Using an entire disk as part of a bootable
+ pool is strongly discouraged, as this may render
+ the pool unbootable. Likewise, you should not
+ use an entire disk as part of a mirror or
+ RAID-Z vdev. These are
+ because it it impossible to reliably determine
+ the size of an unpartitioned disk at boot time
+ and because there's no place to put in boot
+ code.
+