I've been scratching my head for a few days now over this, and I'm beginning to suspect I've ran across a documentation bug.
In the Solaris Volume Manager guide, Sun clearly states that
"Solaris Volume Manager allows system administrators to do the following:
1.
Create, modify, and delete logical volumes built on or from logical storage units (LUNs) greater than 1 TB in size.
2.
Create, modify, and delete logical volumes that exceed 1 TB in size.
"
However, the guide is very unclear as to how this is in fact achieved. There are multiple references to the usage of EFI disk labels, and an implication that the OS will write EFI labels automatically when required. However, format is unable to detect the geometry of the drives and reports them as having a negative sector count.
Could this be a driver issue? Or is the documentation simply incorrect in stating that Solaris 9 03/04 and newer on a 64bit kernel supports multi-TB disk sizes as well as filesystems.
In the Solaris Volume Manager guide, Sun clearly states that
"Solaris Volume Manager allows system administrators to do the following:
1.
Create, modify, and delete logical volumes built on or from logical storage units (LUNs) greater than 1 TB in size.
2.
Create, modify, and delete logical volumes that exceed 1 TB in size.
"
However, the guide is very unclear as to how this is in fact achieved. There are multiple references to the usage of EFI disk labels, and an implication that the OS will write EFI labels automatically when required. However, format is unable to detect the geometry of the drives and reports them as having a negative sector count.
Could this be a driver issue? Or is the documentation simply incorrect in stating that Solaris 9 03/04 and newer on a 64bit kernel supports multi-TB disk sizes as well as filesystems.