Re: Devices.

[mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)]

mueller6725%twc.com@localhost ("Thomas Mueller") writes:

>It's a nuisance not to be able to recognize all partitions on a GPT-partitioned drive because not enough dk* nodes have been configured.  FreeBSD even distinguishes between USB or SCSI disks and SATA disks, and between GPT partitions and MBR-based partitions: better than Linux in that regard.

We don't even use MBR based partitions, that's just compatibility for firwmare.
We also have a "enough dk* nodes" mode but that's disabled by default.

I personally think that all the "we don't do things like system X" claims
are a nuisance.