On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 3:05 AM, Shawn Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > Vassilis Boulogiorgos wrote: >> >> It seems absurd to me that you cannot use the cheap 1.5TB & 2TB out there >> with ZFS. This will have me switch to one of the Linux distros, despite >> hating the idea of using something else than ZFS. > > You're wanting to use a >1TB device on a 32-bit system. To get the best > performance out of ZFS, you really want a 64-bit system. > > You can use >1TB devices just fine on a 64-bit system with ZFS. > > Cheers, > -- > Shawn Walker
Hi, actually ZFS has nothing to do with it. Only VTOC. He has 2 options: Either manually defining a VTOC in the format commant. Then he might not be able to use all blocks that this disk offers, but at least he can use the disk right away (smaller size useable). Or he calls format -e (expert level) and then labels the disk with EFI rather than VTOC. I do not mean labelìng one VTOC slice as EFI, but the entire disk (cNtNdNp0). Afterwards just create a zpool and later on add filesystems or zvolumes of your choice. Drawback: Disk not bootable, except computers firmware supports this (which is unlikely). Benefit: Disk can then be used on multiple ARCHs independently of Byte Ordering (such as on SPARC, ARM, x86, System-z and one day PowerPC). -- Cheers Martin Bochnig _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
