At 2:00 PM -0500 2/8/02, Daniel R. Killoran,Ph.D. wrote:
>>  Apple's partitioning scheme can hold
>>more partitions than any NetBSD port can; 16 is the max we support, while
>>you can have as many Apple partitions as you want.
>
>Actually, there was a bug, at least back around rev 7.1 - I don't 
>know whether it has ever been fixed - that would cause file damage 
>and crashes under Apple's OS if you mounted more than some limit - I 
>think it was 12 devices (partitions). I ran afoul of it myself & had 
>to refer it to Apple - they told me this.

That is a limitation, not a bug...there is a finite number of 
mountable partitions in the Finder...but that has nothing to do with 
the number of partitions that a particular disk can have. They just 
can't be simultaneously mounted. If you uncheck the automount flag, 
then you won't hit the max mounted partitions. Granted, with OS8 
bringing HFS+, there's much less need for many partitions.

Mike
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