Fedora 21 + ZFS on Linux, can't add drives because of partition issue

[gigatexal]

I get this:

[root@localhost gigatexal]# zpool create -f test /dev/sdd

cannot create 'test': no such pool or dataset

[root@localhost gigatexal]# zpool create -f test /dev/sdd

the kernel failed to rescan the partition table: 16

cannot label 'sdd': try using parted(8) and then provide a specific slice: -1

[root@localhost gigatexal]#

The first error is super odd.

The second one I have tried to fix by nuking the partitions using dd to no avail. zpool label clear didn't do anything either.

Has anyone run into this? I think I might try to build zfs from the latest git.

 

[gigatexal]

if i create a gpt partition and assign it via /dev/sda1 it works...odd, i used to let zfs do the provisioning when i was on fbsd. oh well

 

[gigatexal]

it's not pretty, and even parted reported that my partitions are not aligned, but i was able to create pools by creating partitions and specifying them as /dev/sdX[1] where X is the letter of the drive. I know, I know, device by id is better but this isn't a production box, just for tinkering.