Date: Tue, 5 Sep 1995 17:10:47 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: gryphon@healer.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org, peter@taronga.com Subject: Re: disklabel and file system differences between 1.1 and 2.0.5... Message-ID: <199509050710.RAA28515@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>I have both sliced and non-sliced disks mounted on my 2.0.5 system and >have had no problems. >> What are the differences, and which way should I go? See old FreeBSD-current mail. >That's a good question. Anyone, aside from interoperability with other >OS's, is there any real advantage gained by slices? 1. Interoperability with the same OS. 2. More partitions. Labels by default limit the number of partitions to about 8 and there is a fundamental limit imposed by the label having to fit in a single sector. The slice driver by default limits the nomber of partitions to 240 (8 on each of 30 slices) and the disk data structure allows about half as many slices as there are sectors on the disk (up to a limit of 4G sectors). Bruce
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