[SunHELP] solari 7 and tera byte raid issue ?

[William Enestvedt]

Here's a recent Summary from the Sun Mangers list that may address your
question.
-wde
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Will Enestvedt
UNIX System Administrator
Johnson & Wales University -- Providence, RI

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alexander Sarreiter [mailto:Alexander.Sarreiter at melo.de]
> Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 4:10 AM
> To: Sunmanagers (E-Mail)
> Subject: [Summary] Maximum disk size Solaris 8
>
> Hello!
>    I think the following answer is enough ;-)
> thanks
> alexs
>
> ----snip----
>
> Maximum volume you can present to Solaris (even v9) is 1TB
> (or 1TB minus 1byte). This is documented in one of the
> Solaris manuals but hard to find. If you want to break
> 1TB, you'll need to present two volumes from the RAID
> array and concatenate them together with Veritas Volume
> Manager. Note that the Solaris Volume Manager (formerly
> known as disksuite) that comes with Solaris v9 can't
> break the 1TB barrier (found this by trial and error!).
>
> You'll then need to use the Veritas Filesystem since the
> UFS filesystem also can't break the 1TB barrier.
>
> We tried all this and got a ~1.3TB filesystem mounted but
> had corruption of the vxfs filesystem. Still working on a
> solution, but we've backed off to presenting two 700GB
> partitions temporarily.
>
> The question was:
> > I know that the maximum partition size is 1TB, caused
> > by UFS (64bit). But I found no information about the
> > maximum harddisk size. The reason for this question:
> >
> > We attached a RAID system with slightly over 1TB capacity,
> > but the format utility says its a 192GB disk.
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