From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Nov 20 21:44:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from freeway.dcfinc.com (cx74889-a.phnx3.az.home.com [24.1.193.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9882537B479 for ; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 21:44:11 -0800 (PST) Received: (from chad@localhost) by freeway.dcfinc.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA08410; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 22:42:54 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from chad) From: "Chad R. Larson" Message-Id: <200011210542.WAA08410@freeway.dcfinc.com> Subject: Re: Removal of Disklabel In-Reply-To: <200011210459.PAA28469@lightning.itga.com.au> from Gregory Bond at "Nov 21, 0 03:59:15 pm" To: gnb@itga.com.au (Gregory Bond) Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 22:42:53 -0700 (MST) Cc: pdh@bit.net.au, freebsd@KIWI-Computer.com, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: chad@DCFinc.com Organization: DCF, Inc. X-O/S: FreeBSD 2.2.8-STABLE X-Unexpected: The Spanish Inquisition X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As I recall, Gregory Bond wrote: >> Another question: Where does that "8" limit come from? I /know/ I've >> used >8 partitions many years ago... > > The limit of 8 goes _way way_ back - certainly to V7 Unix, probably to > V6. We're talking mid-70s here. When all you have is a 5Mb drive, > you don't need more than 8 partitions! I know of no Unix variant with > more than 8 partitions/ disk - and it has been a problem for us on our > Solaris systems. Our Pyramids, running DC/OSx 1.1 have 16 partitions per hard drive. DC/OSx is/was the reference port of SysVr4 to the MIPS chipset, done under contract by Pyramid for Unix System Labs. -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org larson1@home.net DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message