Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 17:10:14 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: ken@kdm.org (Kenneth D. Merry) Cc: don@calis.blacksun.org, ken@kdm.org, ticso@cicely.de, grog@lemis.com, bright@wintelcom.net, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Journaling Message-ID: <199910291710.KAA16646@usr02.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199910280305.VAA13281@panzer.kdm.org> from "Kenneth D. Merry" at Oct 27, 99 09:05:04 pm
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> > > 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. NetBSD currently supports 16. Yes, it breaks backward compatability. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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