From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Apr 21 09:58:08 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA29891 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 21 Apr 1997 09:58:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.50]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA29882 for ; Mon, 21 Apr 1997 09:58:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id JAA13746; Mon, 21 Apr 1997 09:55:21 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199704211655.JAA13746@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: disklabel -- owner? To: imp@village.org (Warner Losh) Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 09:55:21 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, jbryant@tfs.net, bakul@torrentnet.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Warner Losh" at Apr 20, 97 07:39:26 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > One of the problems is that you can't have more than 8 partitions in a > slice, and two of those are stolen. /, swap, /usr, /var, /tmp, and > one other and you are out. NetBSD has upped this to 16 (or was it OpenBSD). Either way, it's possible to up the number... but is it desirable? One problem, I think, is with device organization: I think it's idiotic to have 'c' and 'd' used the way they are; one can be arrived at by asking the physical disk how many sectors it has, and the other can be arrived at by asking the logical-to-physical translation layer which exported the DOS partitions as devices how big the BSD partition is. So 'c' and 'd' are redundant (all redundancy not related to fault tolerance should be eliminated). Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.