Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 21:48:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Don <don@calis.blacksun.org> To: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org> Cc: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely.de>, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Journaling Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9910272146010.36049-100000@calis.blacksun.org> In-Reply-To: <199910272138.PAA11180@panzer.kdm.org>
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> Actually, it's technically 8 partitions, a-h, but c is "special", and > shouldn't normally be used. Correct C represents the entire disk. > 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? > With FreeBSD at least, if you use 4 DOS-type primary partitions, or slices, > you can stick a disklabel on each slice and have up to 32 partitions. I've > got machine with 3 slices in use on one disk, and 6 partitions per slice in > use on that disk, for a total of 18 partitions in use. I knew this could be done but it just seemed like a kludge to me. I appreciate all of the feedback. This is sounding more and more like a project I would like to start. -don To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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