On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Deano <de...@rattie.demon.co.uk> wrote: > There is no problem in general with 2TB+ data drives under OI, you can get > some extra speed by using a modified zpool > (http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/SATA+-+Advanced+Format+and+4K+Sector+drives) > when you create but it works either way. > > As mentioned by some other posters, for boot drives you also have an issue > of boot loaders and 32/64 bit ness. > > HTH, > Deano > de...@cloudpixies.com
since when is a disk label a boot loader? here is what i havd written: Situation: 32bit kernel (VTOC and EFI label [?]): Limit if larger than 1TB (1TB still ok) 64bit kernel: if VTOC label: Limit if larger than 2TB (2TB still ok) if EFI label: No reasonable limit. Drawback: EFI hardly has boot support on most current BIOS based x86 computers. But for 2TB disks you are still fine: Bootable VTOC labels still support them. Beyond that (e.g. upcoming 3TB disks), see above. %mab _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss