Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 09:39:31 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3TB drives on ZFS and booting Message-ID: <201107250939.31746.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <4E2C9419.4000205@rcn.com> References: <4E2C9419.4000205@rcn.com>
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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. -- John Baldwin
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