large disk > 8 TB

[Barkley Vowk]

On Tue, 11 Dec 2007, Ivan Voras wrote:

> Michael Fuckner wrote:
>> Lan Tran wrote:
>>> However, after I created a zfs zpool on this device it only shows 185
>>> GB. # zpool create tank /dev/mfid1s1d
>>> # zpool list
>>> NAME                    SIZE    USED   AVAIL    CAP  HEALTH     ALTROOT
>>> tank                    185G    111K    185G     0%  ONLINE     -
> This is the wrong way around. Why would something wrap drive sizes at a
> 32-bit limit? The driver and the GEOM systems are 64-bit clean, if this
> is a problem in ZFS, it's a serious one.

It looks like he created a 32bit disk label. He needs to use either 
the raw device, or gpt partitions I think.

Ie. /dev/mdid1 or /dev/mdid1p1 instead of /dev/mdid1s1