[SunHELP] Raidsystem greater then 2TB under solaris 9 12/03

[Dale Ghent]

On Mon, 5 Jan 2004 michael.petereit at materna.de wrote:

> Hello,
>
> we're about to setup a SUNFIRE 280 with a raid array including more then 2TB
> of diskspace.
> The current VTOC system do not support this disk size but EFI should be the
> right tool.
> Currently docs.sun.com is down and there is no chance to look for the
> nescessary steps to solve the EFI issue.
>
> What I'm looking for is a short description of steps to do, software or
> patches nescessary.

Sun released not too long ago patches for Solaris 8 and 9 which introduce
support for multi-terabyte UFS filesystems.

I do not have the patch numbers you'll need on hand, but you can find them
on SunSolve, plainly labeled as introducing this support.

/dale