[OpenIndiana-discuss] 3TB disks for tank zpool? Can only use 2 TB.

Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk roy at karlsbakk.net
Tue Mar 22 17:36:05 UTC 2011


> > test being the single 3 TB disk pool.
> >
> > My google skills seem week on this problem, as I seem to be only
> > able
> > to
> > find stuff about 4kb sectors and not being able to boot > 2TB yet.
> >
> > Can I use 3TB disks, if so how?
> 
> I just finished replacing 7x3+1(spare) 2TB drives with Hitachi 3TB
> ones, and it works like a dream. Also, Hitachi 3TB drives have 512
> byte sector size, only a larger LBA (don't remember how many bits).

Just to clear this out - I'm _not_ using 3TB disks for the rpool - a couple of old 160GB drives does that job well enough :þ

Vennlige hilsener / Best regards

roy
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