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 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.
-Reliably determining the size of an unpartitioned disk at boot time is impossible and because there's no place to put in boot code.
+Reliably determining the size of an unpartitioned disk at boot time is impossible and there's no place to put in boot code.
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 * [[zfs-term-vdev-file]] _File_ - Regular files may make up ZFS pools, which is useful for testing and experimentation. Use the full path to the file as the device path in `zpool create`.