Re: disklabel differences FreeBSD, DragonFly

On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 09:49:48AM -0400, Steve Ames wrote:
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 02:21:59PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:

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.

I would think that cheap disk space would mean larger disks which implies
more 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.

Use gpt on non boot-disks, or use gvinum if you have lots of storage and
like the inherent advantage of named labels, striping, and redundancy.

I wasn't very happy with gpt or bsdlabel recently because you aren't
allowed to modify the partitions if the gpt/bsdlabel is in use (i.e. one
of the other partitions is currently mounted as a filesystem). I hope the
GEOM people are working to improve this.

-- Rick C. Petty
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