Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2008 09:06:40 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com>, "freebsd-geom@freebsd.org" <freebsd-geom@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Changed names of logical disks on recent -CURRENT: part of logical disks not accessible now Message-ID: <21618.1230282400@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 26 Dec 2008 00:45:30 PST." <B334D312-207C-46AF-B2A4-5C328C06D4BA@gmail.com>
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In message <B334D312-207C-46AF-B2A4-5C328C06D4BA@gmail.com>, Garrett Cooper wri tes: >On Dec 26, 2008, at 0:29, "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> >wrote: > >> In message <20081226080146.GB25406@dragon.NUXI.org>, "David O'Brien" >> writes: >> >>>> With flattening, you have ad0sX, with X from 1 to many. >>>> Without flattening you get ad0sX[sY...], with X and Y >>>> from 1 to 4. >> >> That is wrong. >> >> Extended FAT partitions are a linked list and you can have have >> as many partitions as you like. > >I thought 4 primary and 4 secondary dos slices were the limit on a >standard configuration... 3 primary and N secondary. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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