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Date:      Mon, 10 Jul 2006 11:57:53 +0300
From:      Nikos Vassiliadis <nvass@teledomenet.gr>
To:        freebsd-geom@freebsd.org
Cc:        Paul Schenkeveld <fb-geom@psconsult.nl>
Subject:   Re: Which geom to use?
Message-ID:  <200607101157.53801.nvass@teledomenet.gr>
In-Reply-To: <20060709155759.GA67709@psconsult.nl>
References:  <20060709155759.GA67709@psconsult.nl>

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On Sunday 09 July 2006 18:57, Paul Schenkeveld wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Some installations just need a lot of filesystems (e.g. systems with
> many jails) making geom_bsd a bad choice because it only supports
> 7 partitions.

You can use nested labels. You can a create a bsdlabel inside a bsdlabel.
I don't know the limit of nesting. I doubt you'll ever need more than 7**2
partions, or 7**3 partitions, or ...

Then you can use glabel to assign names to the partitions, so you won't
have to remember the exact partioning scheme. It will look like this:
/dev/label/jail_01, /dev/label/music, /dev/label/src

HTH, Nikos



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