On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Dusan Radovanovic <dusa...@gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I am a complete newbie to OpenSolaris, and must to setup a ZFS NAS. I do
> have linux experience, but have never used ZFS. I have tried to install
> OpenSolaris Developer 134 on a 11TB HW RAID-5 virtual disk, but after the
> installation I can only use one 2TB disk, and I cannot partition the rest. I
> realize that maximum partition size is 2TB, but I guess the rest must be
> usable. For hardware I am using HP ProLiant DL180G6, 12 1TB disks connected
> to P212 controller in RAID-5. Could someone direct me or suggest what I am
> doing wrong. Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
> Cheers,
> Dusan
>


You would be much better off installing to a small internal disk, and then
creating a separate pool for the 11TB of storage.  The 2TB limit is because
it's a boot drive.  That limit should go away if you're using it as a
separate storage pool.

--Tim
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