Hi again Cindy, Well, I got the two new 1.5 TB disks, but I ran into a snag:
> a...@diotima:~# zpool attach rpool c3t0d0s0 c3t1d0 > cannot label 'c3t1d0': EFI labeled devices are not supported on root pools. The Solaris 10 System Administration Guide: Devices and File Systems gives some pertinent information on p. 191. > Comparison of the EFI Label and the VTOC Label > The EFI disk label differs from the VTOC disk label in the following ways: > Provides support for disks greater than 1 terabyte in size. Well, that explains why my new disks have EFI labels; furthermore, it appears to mean that I must keep the EFI label if I want to use the full capacity of the disks. > Restrictions of the EFI Disk Label > Keep the following restrictions in mind when determining whether using disks > greater than 1 terabyte is appropriate for your environment: > [...] > You cannot boot from a disk with an EFI disk label. It thus appears that my original plan to replace my 500 GB boot disk with a 1.5 TB boot disk was ill advised, since there is at present no such thing as a 1.5 TB Solaris boot disk. I was thinking of trying an install of OS 2008.11 one of the 1.5 TB disks, just to see what would happen, but then I found the following thread: http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=81852&tstart=0 which refers to this "bug": > 4051 opensolaris b99b/b100a does not install on 1.5 TB disk or boot fails > after install It thus appears that I will have to create a new non-root zpool for the 1.5 TB disks. (Fortunately, I have an extra 500 GB disk which I´m now going to set up to mirror my boot disk.) Does anyone know if there are any plans in the work to make disks with an EFI disk label bootable? The present situation of their not being bootable places the restriction on OpenSolaris that it cannot boot off disks greater than 1 TB. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
