On 11 February, 2009 - Kyle McDonald sent me these 1,2K bytes: > On 2/11/2009 12:11 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: >> >> My understanding is that 1TB is the maximum bootable disk size since >> EFI boot is not supported. It is good that you were allowed to use >> the larger disk, even if its usable space is truncated. >> > I don't dispute that, but I don't understand it either. > > If EFI is not being used (ZFS boot doesn't use EFI on the root pool > since the BIOS doesn't (usually) uinderstand the EFI label) then what is > it that has a 1TB limit?
SMI/VTOC, the original label (partition table format:ish) system used. EFI can use larger, but EFI tables for boot isn't supported right now. I guess you should be able to put the rpool on a 50GB slice or so, then put the other 1450GB in an EFI data pool.. It's just that you can't have the rpool >1TB due to boot limits. /Tomas -- Tomas Ögren, st...@acc.umu.se, http://www.acc.umu.se/~stric/ |- Student at Computing Science, University of Umeå `- Sysadmin at {cs,acc}.umu.se _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
