From owner-freebsd-fs Fri Oct 29 9: 7:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from yana.lemis.com (yana.lemis.com [192.109.197.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E50D6156E4 for ; Fri, 29 Oct 1999 09:07:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from mojave.worldwide.lemis.com ([199.103.141.157]) by yana.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA23764 for ; Sat, 30 Oct 1999 01:37:05 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Message-ID: <19991028085348.39481@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 08:53:48 -0400 From: Greg Lehey To: "Kenneth D. Merry" , Don Cc: Bernd Walter , Alfred Perlstein , freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Journaling References: <199910280305.VAA13281@panzer.kdm.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <199910280305.VAA13281@panzer.kdm.org>; from Kenneth D. Merry on Wed, Oct 27, 1999 at 09:05:04PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wednesday, 27 October 1999 at 21:05:04 -0600, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > 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. There was some discussion about increasing it at one point. But as you say, it would probably confuse some programs, and I personally don't see any need. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message