Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 21:05:04 -0600 (MDT) From: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org> To: don@calis.blacksun.org (Don) Cc: ken@kdm.org (Kenneth D. Merry), ticso@cicely.de (Bernd Walter), grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey), bright@wintelcom.net (Alfred Perlstein), freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Journaling Message-ID: <199910280305.VAA13281@panzer.kdm.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9910272146010.36049-100000@calis.blacksun.org> from Don at "Oct 27, 1999 09:48:31 pm"
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Don wrote... > > 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? It has been that way for a long time. I'm not sure why the limit is 8, but it is. (Someone might know. I suspect it was just an arbitrary value chosen a long time ago.) Changing it might break backwards compatibility, though. Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@kdm.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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