Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 22:15:50 +0100 From: Patrick Lamaiziere <patfbsd@davenulle.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 8 partitions maximum Message-ID: <20101130221550.2cf6d726@davenulle.org> In-Reply-To: <4CF5624F.4020901@gmail.com> References: <4CF5624F.4020901@gmail.com>
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Le Tue, 30 Nov 2010 21:45:03 +0100, David Demelier <demelier.david@gmail.com> a écrit : > Hello, Hello, > We all know that we can only have 8 ufs partitions in one freebsd > slice. Since OpenBSD and NetBSD can support at most 32 partitions > iirc. > > I wonder why FreeBSD still lacks more ufs partitions in one slice? > > Is there any plan to grow up max partitions or every work is > dedicated to ZFS? hmmm, isn't already done in 8.X ? from what's cooking for FreeBSD 8.0 http://ivoras.sharanet.org/freebsd/freebsd8.html « bsdlabel gets extended to 26 partitions Status: Committed to -CURRENT Will appear in 8.0: sure Author: Marcel Moolenaar Web: commit message bsdlabel is (finally!) extended to support more than 8 partitions. The new limit of 26 partitions comes from the number of lower-case letters. To make use of this change, GEOM_PART needs to be used instead of GEOM_BSD (this is default in 8.0 but will not work with older kernels). » Regards.
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