Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 22:42:39 +0100 From: David DEMELIER <demelier.david@gmail.com> To: Patrick Lamaiziere <patfbsd@davenulle.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 8 partitions maximum Message-ID: <AANLkTikrWwS%2B08ERB5xHRLb3gXj6=Y_GdVTNGVvx__=T@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20101130221550.2cf6d726@davenulle.org> References: <4CF5624F.4020901@gmail.com> <20101130221550.2cf6d726@davenulle.org>
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2010/11/30 Patrick Lamaiziere <patfbsd@davenulle.org>: > Le Tue, 30 Nov 2010 21:45:03 +0100, > David Demelier <demelier.david@gmail.com> a =C3=A9crit : > >> Hello, > > Hello, > >> We all know that we can only have 8 ufs partitions in one freebsd >> slice. Since OpenBSD and NetBSD can support at most 32 partitions >> iirc. >> >> I wonder why FreeBSD still lacks more ufs partitions in one slice? >> >> Is there any plan to grow up max partitions or every work is >> dedicated to ZFS? > > hmmm, isn't already done in 8.X ? > from what's cooking for FreeBSD 8.0 > http://ivoras.sharanet.org/freebsd/freebsd8.html > =C2=AB > bsdlabel gets extended to 26 partitions > > Status: Committed to -CURRENT > Will appear in 8.0: sure > Author: Marcel Moolenaar > Web: commit message > > bsdlabel is (finally!) extended to support more than 8 partitions. The > new limit of 26 partitions comes from the number of lower-case letters. > > To make use of this change, GEOM_PART needs to be used instead of > GEOM_BSD (this is default in 8.0 but will not work with older kernels). > =C2=BB > I don't have GEOM_PART in my kernel, but if you said it's default it should be pulled in. > Regards. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" > But why : # /dev/md2s1: 8 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 10m 16 4.2BSD 0 0 b: 10m * 4.2BSD 0 0 d: 10m * 4.2BSD 0 0 e: 10m * 4.2BSD 0 0 f: 10m * 4.2BSD 0 0 g: 10m * 4.2BSD 0 0 h: 10m * 4.2BSD 0 0 i: 10m * 4.2BSD 0 0 j: 10m * 4.2BSD 0 0 k: 10m * 4.2BSD 0 0 c: 2047973 0 unused 0 0 # "raw" part, don't= edit line 11: partition name out of range a-h: i line 12: partition name out of range a-h: j line 13: partition name out of range a-h: k re-edit the label? [y]: I'm on 8.1-RELEASE. Cheers, --=20 Demelier David
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