8 partitions maximum

[Patrick Lamaiziere]

Le Tue, 30 Nov 2010 21:45:03 +0100,
David Demelier <demelier.david at 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
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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).
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Regards.