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Date:      Thu, 4 Aug 2016 14:11:39 +1000 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au>
To:        avg@freebsd.org
Cc:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [Bug 209096] zfsroot bricked on 10.3-RELEASE
Message-ID:  <20160804134452.W1209@besplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <bug-209096-3630-OpV0EZi8uu@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>
References:  <bug-209096-3630@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/> <bug-209096-3630-OpV0EZi8uu@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>

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On Wed, 3 Aug 2016 a bug that doesn't want replies@freebsd.org wrote:

> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=209096
>
> --- Comment #35 from Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org> ---
> (In reply to Daniel Ylitalo from comment #33)
> Hmm, so it seems that lsdev -v does not report the disk size as I've expected.
> So it's not that useful :-(
>
> BTW, it seems that you are still using a single huge partition for ZFS...
> If you split it into the under 2TB and above 2TB partitions, then you could
> easily test the theory by making the >2TB partition a root ZFS pool and
> checking if you can boot to it.

Old BIOSes break at 128GB.  Of course, you shouldn't use zfs on systems
with such a small limit.

I have a 10 year old laptop, which is not very old for me.  Changing its
disk from 100 GB to 750 GB worked well except when I tried to move
partitions above the 128GB boundary on it.  This was confusing, although
I have a lot of experience keeping partitions below 8GB so that they were
bootable with the 1989 boot0 that I used to use, and had rewritten this
boot0 to remove its limit, and was switching systems to use it.

Bruce



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