Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 09:49:48 -0400 From: Steve Ames <steve@energistic.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: disklabel differences FreeBSD, DragonFly Message-ID: <20060727134948.GA3755@energistic.com> In-Reply-To: <20060727122159.GB4217@britannica.bec.de> References: <20060727063936.GA1246@titan.klemm.apsfilter.org> <20060727122159.GB4217@britannica.bec.de>
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On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 02:21:59PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: > On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 08:39:37AM +0200, Andreas Klemm wrote: > > Later I wanted to mount the dfly filesystems on FreeBSD 6.1, > > of course still my main Unix ;-) But it wasn't possible. > > DragonFly disklabels allow 16 entries by default, FreeBSD still limits > it to 8. That's why you can't read it directly. Are there plans to bump the default up from 8? I'm honestly torn on this topic whenever I install a new system. On the one hand I like having a lot of discrete mountpoints to control potential usage. On the other hand with drive space being so inexpensive I sometimes wonder if I need to bother and can get away with very few mountpoints. On very large disks (or arrays that appear as a single disk) I have to create multiple slices in order to get more than 8 mountpoints. Its an extra hoop to jump through. -steve
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