Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2001 16:57:31 -0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> To: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely8.cicely.de> Cc: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>, Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, "David O'Brien" <dev-null@NUXI.com>, Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM>, Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>, Kirk McKusick <mckusick@beastie.mckusick.com>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proposed auto-sizing patch to sysinstall (was Re: Using a larger block size on large filesystems) Message-ID: <20011209005732.019053808@overcee.netplex.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20011209003829.C6171@cicely8.cicely.de>
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Bernd Walter wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 08:51:31PM +0100, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 11:11:29AM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> > >
> > > :
> > > :On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 07:49:32PM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> > > :> We do not have enough partition id's to make a separate
> > > :> /usr/local.
> > > :
> > > :Has anyone considered raising the max number of partitions from 8 to 16
> > > :as OpenBSD did years ago?
> > >
> > > Oh, by the way... there is actually a way you can bump up the number
> > > of partitions. What you do is split the disk up into multiple slices
.
> > > We have 4, after all. You can then disklabel each one.
> >
> > This works on x86 but not on alpha which does not use slices.
>
> Vinum works fine on i386 and alpha.
Yes, but vinum brings its own problems.
Cheers,
-Peter
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