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Date:      Thu, 21 Jul 2011 20:40:11 GMT
From:      "Andrey V. Elsukov" <bu7cher@yandex.ru>
To:        freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: kern/159091: [geom] GEOM fails to scan nested partitions to create subdevices
Message-ID:  <201107212040.p6LKeBM8083818@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR kern/159091; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Andrey V. Elsukov" <bu7cher@yandex.ru>
To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org, wayne@staff.msen.com
Cc:  
Subject: Re: kern/159091: [geom] GEOM fails to scan nested partitions to create
 subdevices
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2011 00:29:58 +0400

 Hi,
 
 GEOM_PART_BSD does not support nested partitions.
 If you want to create many partitions you can create GPT partition
 table. It supports more than 128 partitions. Also you can use "-n"
 option for `gpart create` command. BSD scheme supports maximum 20
 partitions.
 
 -- 
 WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov



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