Re: Partition limit on Solaris disk drives

According to Ian Collins <ian-news@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
DoN. Nichols wrote:
Folks,

Having recently added a Sun Fire 280R to my collection, and
having a 146 GB FC drive in the primary slot, I find myself wishing that
Solaris allowed what OpenBSD does -- fifteen active partitions in
addition to the one which represents the whole disk drive, instead of
the seven plus the whole disk which Solaris allows.

I tend to like multiple partitions to keep things separated for
security, and I wind up with too much left over space in all the
partitions.

Use ZFS filesystems.

On the boot disk? I thought that ZFS will only work for
filesystems other than the root filesystem -- that you have to be enough
through the boot sequence before it will create and mount the
filesystems.

I'm already experimenting with zfs and a cluster of 18 GB SCSI
drives, and once I have enough FC disks of sufficient size, then yes,
ZFS will be used for that. But since it seems to be at its most
efficient, I don't really want to make only part of the primary (boot)
disk ZFS while the rest is plain filesystems for boot purposes.

Thanks
DoN.

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