From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG  Sat Sep 23 17:23:12 2006
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED36216A403
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Sat, 23 Sep 2006 17:23:12 +0000 (UTC)
	(envelope-from infofarmer@gmail.com)
Received: from qb-out-0506.google.com (qb-out-0506.google.com [72.14.204.238])
	by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEC1443D64
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Sat, 23 Sep 2006 17:23:11 +0000 (GMT)
	(envelope-from infofarmer@gmail.com)
Received: by qb-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id a10so149257qbd
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Sat, 23 Sep 2006 10:23:10 -0700 (PDT)
DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com;
	h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth;
	b=BGoxaNhuFQ9O5/Mz0hEy1JxAMBtSItzC+H/YMEb+rf+4fhjWxoZfEi0lri3ZqwCRZkFZJs8zGWeTiZvgXWXJCDQkuo2zEYnAVhmHLHkXVrypq8sTmkZA2U6lShpQ/IKTgXVmDFs1qhlQ2NqPAKYaS6sz49UZKw5Pt2T4mBxKpHE=
Received: by 10.35.52.18 with SMTP id e18mr4109152pyk;
	Sat, 23 Sep 2006 10:23:10 -0700 (PDT)
Received: by 10.35.119.12 with HTTP; Sat, 23 Sep 2006 10:23:10 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <cb5206420609231023m8310ef4s56417d331cba0917@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 21:23:10 +0400
From: "Andrew Pantyukhin" <infofarmer@FreeBSD.org>
Sender: infofarmer@gmail.com
To: "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <d7195cff0609222245l7f2d2bf8w80d7badd399b1d23@mail.gmail.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: inline
References: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0609210542390.8597@panix1.panix.com>
	<cb5206420609210324i7610ab56l4da4c40b3f6cac9e@mail.gmail.com>
	<d7195cff0609222245l7f2d2bf8w80d7badd399b1d23@mail.gmail.com>
X-Google-Sender-Auth: 4e9d90da9f1046b9
Cc: Jeffrey Katz <off@panix.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: nested labels
X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5
Precedence: list
List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, 
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, 
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 17:23:13 -0000

On 9/23/06, illoai@gmail.com <illoai@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/21/06, Andrew Pantyukhin <infofarmer@freebsd.org> wrote:
> > On 9/21/06, Jeffrey Katz <off@panix.com> wrote:
> > > I have hit the limit of 8 disklabels per slice.  Supposedly, one can
> > > create lables within a label, thus overcoming this limit.  I googled
> > > everything but could only find references to gpt-- nothing about nested
> > > labels or partitions.  Can anyone detail the steps involved in setting up
> > > nested labels or partitions?
> >
> > You might want to have a look at glabel(8), or maybe gnop(8),
> > or even http://wiki.freebsd.org/gvirstor
>
> And with file backed memory disks feeding from
> qemu nfs servers . . .

Come on, geom is not that bad.