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

[Carl Brewer]

On 1/05/2015 9:51 AM, jason matthews wrote:
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> IllumOS distributions boot from legacy MBR. MBR is limited to 2TB of
> addressable space.
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> Use smaller disks to boot from and add a data zpool for the big disks
> using EFI.

So it can't be done?  Maybe I can partition the drives into a boot and a 
big chunk?

Carl


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> j.
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> On 4/30/15 4:40 PM, Carl Brewer wrote:
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>> G'day
>> I did a bit of googling but didn't find anything.
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>> 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".
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>> Is that something there's a fix to? Or is it a limit?
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>> Thanks
>>
>> Carl
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