Question about using ZFS root pool for whole disk?

I played around with the newest version of Solaris 10/08 over my vacation by loading it onto a V210 with dual 72GB drives. I used the ZFS root partition configuration and all seem to go well.
After I was done, I wondered if using the whole disk for the zpool was a good idea or not. I did some looking around but I didn't see anything that suggested that was good or bad.
I already know about some the flash archive issues and will be playing with those shortly, but I am curious how others are setting up their root ZFS pools.
Would it be smarter to setup say a 9gb partition on both drives so that the root ZFS is created on that to make the zpool and then mirror it to the other drive and then create another ZFS pool from the remaining disk?

route1 wrote:
Just a word of caution when using ZFS as your boot disk. There are tons of bugs in ZFS boot that can make the system un-bootable and un-recoverable.Can you expand upon that statement with supporting evidence (BugIDs and such)? I have a number of local zones (sparse and full) on three Sol10u6 SPARC machines and they've been booting fine. I am having problems LiveUpgrading (lucreate) that I'm scratching my head to resolve. But I haven't had any ZFS boot/root corruption.

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