3TB drives on ZFS and booting

Dimitry Andric dim at FreeBSD.org
Tue Jul 26 08:30:21 UTC 2011


On 2011-07-25 15:39, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Sunday, July 24, 2011 5:52:25 pm Gary Corcoran wrote:
...
>> 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.

Isn't that also dependent on the BIOS's ability to handle 64-bit LBA's?


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