>Hello all, I'd like some practical advice on migration of a >Sun Fire X4500 (Thumper) from aging data disks to a set of >newer disks. Some questions below are my own, others are >passed from the customer and I may consider not all of them >sane - but must ask anyway ;) > >1) They hope to use 3Tb disks, and hotplugged an Ultrastar 3Tb > for testing. However, the system only sees it as a 802Gb > device, via Solaris format/fdisk as well as via parted [1]. > Is that a limitation of the Marvell controller, disk, > the current OS (snv_117)? Would it be cleared by a reboot > and proper disk detection on POST (I'll test tonight) or > these big disks won't work in X4500, period? >
Your old release of Solaris (nearly three years old) doesn't support disks over 2TB, I would think. (A 3TB is 3E12, the 2TB limit is 2^41 and the difference is around 800Gb) Casper _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
