[OpenIndiana-discuss] ways to move from sliced rpool to gpt/EFI rpool

[Carsten Grzemba]

On 23.03.17 11:24, Nikola M  <minikola at gmail.com> wrote: 
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> On 03/23/17 11:18 AM, Alexander Pyhalov wrote:
> >On 03/22/17 04:21 PM, Carsten Grzemba wrote:
> >>Is there a way to migrate a sliced (mirrored) rpool on disks with msdos partition table to gpt partioned disks (EFI lable)
> >>with loader?
> >
> >You can remove one part of the mirror, attach it as whole disk to mirror and then do it for the second part.
> >
> >https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/2015/02/sort/time_rev/page/1/entry/0:74/20150226170316:3EE4E9A0-BE03-11E4-8A39-E726B1B46E4C/ 
> >
> >Be sure to experiment in VM first.
> 
> That is the great (and best practices) advice, but I think he actually wanted to keep using Partitions/Slices also out of GPT disk(s), too.
> 
> Of course it is always better to use full-disk(s) for pools, because of illumos using disk cache better with fuill-disk, but it is possible to install and use also GPT partitions and make full-partition slice under it. (give empty space to installer to make GPT partition and Slice in it)
> 
I want use the whole disk GPT partitioned for the Rpool only, for get the disk cache in use.