it's got to do with vmware obviously, as we've been able to make +20TB fs with zfs
selim ------------------------------------------------------ Blog: http://fakoli.blogspot.com/ On 11/7/07, Chris Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I am experiencing an issue when trying to set up a large ZFS volume in > OpenSolaris build 74 and the same problem in Nexenta alpha 7. I have looked > on Google for the error and have found zero (yes, ZERO) results, so I'm quite > surprised! Please can someone help? > > I am setting up a test environment in VMware Workstation 6.0 before I unleash > this on real hardware. The virtual system has an IDE HDD, IDE CD-ROM and 4 > 750 GB SCSI disks (c2t0d0 --> c2t3d0). Once working, I hope to use the iSCSI > target to see the volume from a Windows box. > > I create the zpool with: > [i]zpool create zp raidz c2t0d0 c2t1d0 c2t2d0 c2t3d0[/i] > > This completes fine, and then a [i]zpool iostat[/i] reports the pool as > having 2.93T free. All makes sense so far. > > Then, I try to create a ZFS volume in there of size 1.25T with the following > command: > zfs create -V 1.25T zp/test > > This then fails with: > cannot create 'zp/test': volume size exceeds limit for this system > > Please can someone help me with this? I've tried making sense of the word > "system" in this context but haven't come up with much. A volume of 1T works > fine. Could it be something to do with having a 32 bit CPU? > > Many thanks, > Chris > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss > -- ------------------------------------------------------ Blog: http://fakoli.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
