[OpenIndiana-discuss] new box build OI 201503 - 4TB WD reds only 2TB?

[jason matthews]

IllumOS distributions boot from legacy MBR. MBR is limited to 2TB of 
addressable space.

Use smaller disks to boot from and add a data zpool for the big disks 
using EFI.


j.


On 4/30/15 4:40 PM, Carl Brewer wrote:
>
> G'day
> I did a bit of googling but didn't find anything.
>
> I have a new box I'm building, with 2 x 4TB WD Red HDD's to run as a 
> 4TB mirrored rpool.  I plan to build a very basic ZFS rpool box, that 
> will be an rsync destination for a bunch of other servers at a client 
> site - one big rpool is really all I want.  OI Hipster 201503 is the 
> ISO I am using.
>
> Installing off the OI installer GUI ISO, my two 4TB drives are showing 
> up as 3.64TB drives (good!), but the installer GUI says I can only 
> format them to 2TB.  AFAIK the BIOS is not doing anything fancy and 
> these drives are brand new just out of the wrapper. Gparted shows them 
> as 3.64TB too, and offers to format them in a number of formats, 
> including "sun".
>
> Is that something there's a fix to? Or is it a limit?
>
> Thanks
>
> Carl
>
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