From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 30 21:42:43 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 195A7106566C for ; Tue, 30 Nov 2010 21:42:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from demelier.david@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f54.google.com (mail-bw0-f54.google.com [209.85.214.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 998738FC17 for ; Tue, 30 Nov 2010 21:42:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz2 with SMTP id 2so5767018bwz.13 for ; Tue, 30 Nov 2010 13:42:41 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=SwhyZR0hsTRR/fbd15KQd53FenIJbhUnIgFVdQT5FRs=; b=gK5OJ0sPQM0Af8ZMrIc5V3I3dgbddSeFwpmjmnl23mducAFo+YyB8jIg0MrGI+DSL/ ZR09nt4jOKHDt8yOr54bYkG7fRoLIlDtyULArmpeyKM8WDaL1cgt2vfJjjsnJjAvucpA SW/HL/wWtmeehVeVoGaU21Sp9auN2WEs00GfE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=ZaYvbCharsqw8F4j2KzzfVbt9/zZ9RzPxBCnKI6Ht9ZTLUojmqKMyjVQfYTQeX6xWN j50kICHbTmc7NO4Nrdkb0bjaByWjPtMoy1QRBMDUMpbUxNr/wicGfe/sBBvG6j3693p1 VXvusmZyxnkLRrEJ1PjCeFAv1om7ynHCG0gow= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.117.12 with SMTP id o12mr6193343bkq.166.1291153359834; Tue, 30 Nov 2010 13:42:39 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.204.127.20 with HTTP; Tue, 30 Nov 2010 13:42:39 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20101130221550.2cf6d726@davenulle.org> References: <4CF5624F.4020901@gmail.com> <20101130221550.2cf6d726@davenulle.org> Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 22:42:39 +0100 Message-ID: From: David DEMELIER To: Patrick Lamaiziere Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 8 partitions maximum X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 21:42:43 -0000 2010/11/30 Patrick Lamaiziere : > Le Tue, 30 Nov 2010 21:45:03 +0100, > David Demelier 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