From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 27 14:58:25 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 DAA6D16A4DF for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2006 14:58:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brooks@lor.one-eyed-alien.net) Received: from sccmmhc92.asp.att.net (sccmmhc92.asp.att.net [204.127.203.212]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E8D743D66 for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2006 14:58:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from brooks@lor.one-eyed-alien.net) Received: from lor.one-eyed-alien.net ([12.207.12.9]) by sccmmhc92.asp.att.net (sccmmhc92) with ESMTP id <20060727145819m92002sv31e>; Thu, 27 Jul 2006 14:58:19 +0000 Received: from lor.one-eyed-alien.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lor.one-eyed-alien.net (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k6REwDpK057584; Thu, 27 Jul 2006 09:58:13 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from brooks@lor.one-eyed-alien.net) Received: (from brooks@localhost) by lor.one-eyed-alien.net (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id k6REwDJT057583; Thu, 27 Jul 2006 09:58:13 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from brooks) Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 09:58:09 -0500 From: Brooks Davis To: Steve Ames Message-ID: <20060727145808.GA49709@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> References: <20060727063936.GA1246@titan.klemm.apsfilter.org> <20060727122159.GB4217@britannica.bec.de> <20060727134948.GA3755@energistic.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="ikeVEW9yuYc//A+q" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060727134948.GA3755@energistic.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org 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 14:58:26 -0000 --ikeVEW9yuYc//A+q Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 09:49:48AM -0400, Steve Ames wrote: > 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. > >=20 > > DragonFly disklabels allow 16 entries by default, FreeBSD still limits > > it to 8. That's why you can't read it directly. >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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. In most respects it's a pointless change since it just increases the cound from one small number to another one. If you need lots of partitions, gpt is your friend. The only problem with it at this point is that we haven't done the work to boot from it and thus do away with bsdlabels entierly. -- Brooks --ikeVEW9yuYc//A+q Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEyNSAXY6L6fI4GtQRAsmJAKDMrIO/dxIy5kcVDK977hs9hTnOiQCfdy0a KUrQwIMAc00wK+oKUBYRSgw= =/EO/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ikeVEW9yuYc//A+q--