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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