From owner-freebsd-fs Wed Oct 27 14:39: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from panzer.kdm.org (panzer.kdm.org [216.160.178.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38C9A14E0E for ; Wed, 27 Oct 1999 14:39:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ken@panzer.kdm.org) Received: (from ken@localhost) by panzer.kdm.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) id PAA11180; Wed, 27 Oct 1999 15:38:27 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from ken) Message-Id: <199910272138.PAA11180@panzer.kdm.org> Subject: Re: Journaling In-Reply-To: from Don at "Oct 27, 1999 05:20:42 pm" To: don@calis.blacksun.org (Don) Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 15:38:27 -0600 (MDT) Cc: ticso@cicely.de (Bernd Walter), grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey), bright@wintelcom.net (Alfred Perlstein), freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Kenneth D. Merry" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Don wrote... > > The Limit of 7 partionions is not of any interest if you use vinum. > > Vinum should be able to manage in 1 partion more volumes than you will want. > Ok nevermind :) Either way vinum is not up to snuff. It still has a way to > go before it can be used in a production environment. My question then > becomes what causes the 7 (partition, mount point, slice, whatever) limit? > FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Solaris all share this limitation. Since they only > share UFS (AFAIK) I had assumed it was the fault of UFS. Actually, it's technically 8 partitions, a-h, but c is "special", and shouldn't normally be used. This is a disklabel limitation, not a filesystem limitation. I believe that Solaris x86 may be able to do 16 partitions (or so a guy at Sun told me). With FreeBSD at least, if you use 4 DOS-type primary partitions, or slices, you can stick a disklabel on each slice and have up to 32 partitions. I've got machine with 3 slices in use on one disk, and 6 partitions per slice in use on that disk, for a total of 18 partitions in use. Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@kdm.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message