Subject: Re: Increasing maximum partition to 16
To: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@zembu.com>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@beverly.kleinbus.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 12/29/2000 12:44:18
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 06:26:15PM -0800, Bill Studenmund wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Chuck Silvers wrote:
> 
> > 64 partitions has the additional issue that the current on-disk
> > bsd disklabel format doesn't allow for that many entries,
> > so we would have to create yet another on-disk format to store
> > that many partitions.  the current bsd label layout is constrained
> > to one 512-byte sector on many platforms because of the placement of
> > the bsd label at sector 0 and the placement of the boot blocks
> > right after that.
> 
> True, but the bsd disklabel format isn't the only disk partitioning format
> we can read. Both Apple partitioning and MBR partitioning can get us to
> beyond 32 partitions quick. :-)

Amiga RDB is only limited by disk size.

	-is