Re: [zfs-discuss] Large device support

2006-07-17 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello J.P., Monday, July 17, 2006, 2:15:56 PM, you wrote: JPK Possibly not the right list, but the only appropriate one I knew about. JPK I have a Solaris box (just reinstalled to Sol 10 606) with a 3.19TB device JPK hanging off it, attatched by fibre. JPK Solaris refuses to see this device

Re: [zfs-discuss] Large device support

2006-07-17 Thread J.P. King
Well if in fact sd/ssd with EFI labels still have limit to 2TB than create SMI label with one slice representing whole disk and then put zfs on that slice. Eventually manually turn on write cache then. How do you suggest that I create a slice representing the whole disk? format (with or without

Re: [zfs-discuss] Large device support

2006-07-17 Thread J.P. King
Well if in fact sd/ssd with EFI labels still have limit to 2TB than create SMI label with one slice representing whole disk and then put zfs on that slice. Eventually manually turn on write cache then. Well, in fact it turned out that the firmware on the device needed upgrading to support the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Large device support

2006-07-17 Thread J.P. King
On Mon, 17 Jul 2006, Cindy Swearingen wrote: Hi Julian, Can you send me the documentation pointer that says 2 TB isn't supported on the Solaris 10 6/06 release? As per my original post: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-5093/6mkisoq1k?a=view#disksconcepts-17 This doesn't say which

Re: [zfs-discuss] Large device support

2006-07-17 Thread Torrey McMahon
Or if you have the right patches ... http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/torrey?entry=really_big_luns Cindy Swearingen wrote: Hi Julian, Can you send me the documentation pointer that says 2 TB isn't supported on the Solaris 10 6/06 release? The 2 TB limit was lifted in the Solaris 10 1/06