[OpenIndiana-discuss] Booting Hipster from > 2 TB disks ???

Till Wegmüller toasterson at gmail.com
Thu Dec 14 13:59:27 UTC 2017


Hi Reginald

AFAIK this was the very reason we switched to loader.
RAIDZ has been mentioned as supported unfortunately I have not tired it.

I will install my > 2 TB System tomorrow So I can report back once that
runs.


Greetings
Till

On 13.12.2017 23:28, Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss wrote:
> Is this possible?   A bunch of searching has not resolved the question.  If it is, I will order 3-4 TB disks, if not, I'll order 2 TB disks.
> There was a post several years ago saying it worked, but I can find no confirmation that it is functional.  
> 
> I presently have a system which uses 2 TB disks with a small slice for rpool and a large slice for user files.  The user file slice is using RAIDZ2. Each disk in the RAIDZ2 pool has an rpool slice which is part of a 4 way mirror.  At the time I set that up OI would not boot from an EFI label disk and would not boot from a RAIDZ pool.
> 
> I've not seen anything definitive to indicate that that has changed.  Hence my question.
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