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ZFS vdev naming?

I have no idea what is the basis for the vdev (virtual device) naming used when creating zfs pools on Solaris. Suppose I have a c4d0 disk, what are c4d0p0 and c4d0s0? And how do I know what to use with ZFS commands. I am terribly confused as I keep getting "invalid vdev". Any pointers?

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c4d0s0 = controller 4, disk 0, slice 0



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If you want the full disk to be used by ZFS, you would like to use the primary disk name c4d0 in your case.



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There is a very good article: How Solaris Disk Device Names Work .
This can help.

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The ZFS Best Practice Guide recommends using the entire disk for production setup - so do as X-Istence said - use c4d0 with no chunk number. With ZF, you can throw away everything you know about separation - they are so 1990s!

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