--- On Thu, 9/17/09, Vassilis Boulogiorgos <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Vassilis Boulogiorgos <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] External disk >1TB > To: [email protected] > Date: Thursday, September 17, 2009, 5:24 PM > Thanks all for your responses. > > I understand the shortcoming about the 32-bit data type and > I can understand that this is not possible to overcome. > > I thought that a workaround would be to somehow > "disguise" the disk to report a 1TB size or > "trick" Opensolaris to "think" that a > 1TB disk in connected and at least be able to use the 1TB. > > > Is there a way to achieve this? > > Thanks a lot for your support, > Vassilis Yes, but it requires a bit of work as the underlying tools have to conform as well. Some of us are using 2TB external drives where this is a critical issue to consider for an enhancement effort. ~Ken Mays _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
