Subject: Re: wedges vs. not-quite-wedges, was > 1T filesystems, disklabels,
To: Frank van der Linden <fvdl@wasabisystems.com>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 12/22/2002 15:16:26
On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, Frank van der Linden wrote:

> The static limit is the main problem as far as I'm concerned. For example,
> MBRs recurse, so there's no upper limit on them. I wouldn't expect there
> to be more than 16, but it *could* happen..

I hear you. I really do. That's why I upped the proposed partition per
device count to 256 in what I suggest, hoping that we won't run into a
problem. But this would be a place where having the wedges device around
too will help, as we will be able to take care of that case.

Take care,

Bill