My apologies for not closing the loop on this one. For the archives...
On 02/10/2011 03:11 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 01:55:57AM -0500, Bill McGonigle wrote:
> > Hi, folks,
> >
> > Has anybody had luck using phy: disks with this version?
> >
With*what* version?:)
This was(is) 2.6.32
> > I'm trying to create a new OpenSolaris DomU (nexenta
3.0.4) with two phy: devices, and
> > instead of the expected behavior I'm seeing two disks show up, one as
> > 0GB and one as 64510.04GB.
> >
> > file: devices seem to work OK.
> >
> > Disks are declared like:
> >
> > 'phy:/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_ST31500341AS_9VS41HND,xvda,w',
> >
Did you try with /dev/sdX ? That shouldn't change the behaviour but you never know..
It turns out this was due to the inability of the 32-bit Solaris kernel
to handle disks of modern size. Forcing the 64-bit Solaris kernel
cleared up the issue.
-Bill
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