Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 08:53:48 -0400 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org>, Don <don@calis.blacksun.org> Cc: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely.de>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Journaling Message-ID: <19991028085348.39481@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199910280305.VAA13281@panzer.kdm.org>; from Kenneth D. Merry on Wed, Oct 27, 1999 at 09:05:04PM -0600 References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9910272146010.36049-100000@calis.blacksun.org> <199910280305.VAA13281@panzer.kdm.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
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
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?19991028085348.39481>