3TB drives on ZFS and booting

[John Baldwin]

On Sunday, July 24, 2011 5:52:25 pm Gary Corcoran wrote:
> I have seen conflicting information on the internet about this, and so
> I would like a direct answer from someone who knows for sure.  Does FreeBSD's
> ZFS work with 3TB drives, and is it possible to do a ZFS-only (i.e. boot from
> ZFS) installation with 3TB drives on FreeBSD?  I presume that since ZFS was designed
> to handle huge filesystems, it would have no problem with 3TB drives, but I guess
> the real question is the ZFS boot code - can it currently handle >2TB drives?
> Bottom line: would I be able to successfully build (and of course boot) a FreeBSD
> ZFS-only system using only 3TB drives?

You probably want to use GPT instead of MBR, but the GPT ZFS boot code shoul
fully handle 64-bit LBAs just fine.

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John Baldwin