--- On Fri, 9/28/12, Jan Owoc <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I was looking into 3TB (or 4TB) drives myself. Solaris > documentation > (including current Solaris 11) says that you can't boot off > a drive > > 2TB because you can't use an EFI label. Did "format -e" work > around > this limitation? Or were you merely able to make a > non-bootable zfs > pool? > > Jan > It's a non-boot pool. My boot pool is a mirrored pair of 1 TB drives. I used them because I had them, but I think there's a good argument for keeping the boot pool disks under 2 TB to keep down resilver times for a replacement so that the window of vulnerability to a 2nd failure is minimized. Losing the system is a lot more painful than losing some of your data even w/ full backups. The 3 TB disk is just scratch space. I haven't abended a job by filling 3 TB, but I have several times w/ a 2 TB filesystem. A bit annoying to find Monday morning that the weekend job failed because of lack of space :-( Reg _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
