Re: disklabel differences FreeBSD, DragonFly

On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 02:21:59PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 08:39:37AM +0200, Andreas Klemm wrote:
Later I wanted to mount the dfly filesystems on FreeBSD 6.1,
of course still my main Unix ;-) But it wasn't possible.

DragonFly disklabels allow 16 entries by default, FreeBSD still limits
it to 8. That's why you can't read it directly.

Are there plans to bump the default up from 8? I'm honestly torn on
this topic whenever I install a new system. On the one hand I like
having a lot of discrete mountpoints to control potential usage. On
the other hand with drive space being so inexpensive I sometimes
wonder if I need to bother and can get away with very few mountpoints.

On very large disks (or arrays that appear as a single disk) I have
to create multiple slices in order to get more than 8 mountpoints. Its
an extra hoop to jump through.

-steve

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