Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 11:45:31 +0200 From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: More than 8 labels per slice Message-ID: <20040427114531.1d9c5632@Magellan.Leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <200404270906.54407.current@schmalzbauer.de> References: <200404270906.54407.current@schmalzbauer.de>
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On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 09:06:43 +0200
Harald Schmalzbauer <current@schmalzbauer.de> wrote:
> Dear coders,
>
> is there any chance that FreeBSD can adopt the OpenBSD changes reagrding UFS
> labels? I'm using one label per jail and this old 8 label limit forces me to
> use different slices which sometimes, when I have to change label sizes, is a
> big handicap.
> Having 16 labels would improove the jail-handling greatly IMHO. Having 32
> labels (like I think NetBSD) was even greater, but lifting the 8 label limit
> would suffice I think.
Use vinum in the mean time. There you can have more than 32 partitions
on one disk.
Bye,
Alexander.
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