Bug 241956 - Add caution against use of whole disks in zpools used for booting, mirrors, and RAID-Zs.
Summary: Add caution against use of whole disks in zpools used for booting, mirrors, a...
Status: Closed FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Documentation
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Books & Articles (show other bugs)
Version: Latest
Hardware: Any Any
: --- Affects Only Me
Assignee: freebsd-doc (Nobody)
URL:
Keywords: patch
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2019-11-13 19:30 UTC by Pau Amma
Modified: 2019-12-08 14:23 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Caution against inadvisable use of whole unpartitioned disks (876 bytes, patch)
2019-11-13 19:30 UTC, Pau Amma 		no flags Details | Diff
Updated patch with language tweaks suggested by tsoome and Allan Jude (956 bytes, patch)
2019-11-14 00:16 UTC, Pau Amma 		no flags Details | Diff
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Description Pau Amma 2019-11-13 19:30:47 UTC 
Created attachment 209136 [details]
Caution against inadvisable use of whole unpartitioned disks

Based on a Freenode IRC discussion with tsoome.
Comment 1 Allan Jude freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2019-11-13 22:26:59 UTC 
Agreed.

It might be helpful to explain why (with no partitioning, there is no place to put the boot code)
Comment 2 Pau Amma 2019-11-14 00:16:34 UTC 
Created attachment 209140 [details]
Updated patch with language tweaks suggested by tsoome and Allan Jude
Comment 3 commit-hook freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2019-12-08 14:22:40 UTC 
A commit references this bug:

Author: bcr
Date: Sun Dec  8 14:21:39 UTC 2019
New revision: 53667
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/53667

Log:
  Add a caution against using whole disks for
  zpools that are used for booting, mirrors,
  and RAIDZ.

  PR:		241956
  Submitted by:	pauamma@gundo.com
  Approved by:	tsoome@
  Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D22663

Changes:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/zfs/chapter.xml
Comment 4 Benedict Reuschling freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2019-12-08 14:23:23 UTC 
Thank you for submitting a fix. It's appreciated!
PR closed.