[OpenIndiana-discuss] Installation on HD => 2TB

[Reginald Beardsley]

Yes.  I was still waking up.

--- On Thu, 1/31/13, Jim Klimov <jimklimov at cos.ru> wrote:

> From: Jim Klimov <jimklimov at cos.ru>
> Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Installation on HD => 2TB
> To: openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org
> Date: Thursday, January 31, 2013, 6:34 AM
> On 2013-01-31 13:27, Reginald
> Beardsley wrote:
> > You can't boot OI from disks over 2 TB as they require
> an EFI label.
> 
> 
> I believe this is not technically precise. If you label a
> 3Tb disk with
> MBR, I think you can boot - but forfeit the extra terabyte
> of data.
> 
> In some future case this might be acceptable - i.e. when a
> dirt-cheap
> replacement disk which is larger than your old one comes and
> is to be
> just plugged into a degraded pool. So you lose 1/3...
> well... it is
> cheap (i.e. in a year-two from now).
> 
> //Jim
> 
> 
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