large disk > 8 TB
Barkley Vowk
bvowk at math.ualberta.ca
Tue Dec 11 23:54:07 PST 2007
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
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