From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 27 13:49:57 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7041916A4DF; Thu, 27 Jul 2006 13:49:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from steve@energistic.com) Received: from energistic.com (mail.energistic.com [216.54.148.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 605E943D64; Thu, 27 Jul 2006 13:49:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from steve@energistic.com) Received: from energistic.com (steve@localhost.energistic.com [127.0.0.1]) by energistic.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k6RDnm7A005763; Thu, 27 Jul 2006 09:49:48 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from steve@energistic.com) Received: (from steve@localhost) by energistic.com (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id k6RDnmN4005522; Thu, 27 Jul 2006 09:49:48 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from steve) Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 09:49:48 -0400 From: Steve Ames To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20060727134948.GA3755@energistic.com> References: <20060727063936.GA1246@titan.klemm.apsfilter.org> <20060727122159.GB4217@britannica.bec.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060727122159.GB4217@britannica.bec.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-8.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS, SPF_PASS,USER_IN_WHITELIST_TO autolearn=ham version=3.1.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on energistic.com Cc: Subject: Re: disklabel differences FreeBSD, DragonFly X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 13:49:57 -0000 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