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Subject: Re: ROOTDEVNAME error in conf/LINT
In-Reply-To: <199906202315.JAA03124@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from Bruce Evans at "Jun 21, 1999 09:15:25 am"
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Bruce Evans once wrote:

> >    that may change as SCSI disk sizes keep climbing and too large
> >    partitions take performance hits.  
> >
> >    alternative is to change MAXPARTITIONS?  to 16?
> 
> One reason is that the slice data format is better.  It doesn't have
> arbitrary limits like 8 or 16 (it's essentially a linked list).

For a total of 3-5 slices/partitions/chunks like

	/	/usr	swap	/home	/var	/tmp

I'd much  rather have an  array then a  link list... And  shorter device
names too... Is  it worth it to  keep the two tactics in  place with the
kernel build option? I don't know... Sincerely,

		-mi


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