From owner-freebsd-fs Wed Oct 27 18:46:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from calis.blacksun.org (Calis.blacksun.org [168.100.186.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68C3214A21 for ; Wed, 27 Oct 1999 18:46:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from don@calis.blacksun.org) Received: from localhost (don@localhost) by calis.blacksun.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id VAA36052; Wed, 27 Oct 1999 21:48:31 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from don@calis.blacksun.org) Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 21:48:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Don To: "Kenneth D. Merry" Cc: Bernd Walter , Greg Lehey , Alfred Perlstein , freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Journaling In-Reply-To: <199910272138.PAA11180@panzer.kdm.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Actually, it's technically 8 partitions, a-h, but c is "special", and > shouldn't normally be used. Correct C represents the entire disk. > 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). I will have to check this out. Thanks for the info. Is there any reason that disklabel has this limit? > 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. I knew this could be done but it just seemed like a kludge to me. I appreciate all of the feedback. This is sounding more and more like a project I would like to start. -don To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message