Re: Devices.

["Thomas Mueller" <mueller6725%twc.com@localhost>]

from 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.

Where do I find the "enough dk* nodes" mode?  Would it be in the kernel config?  I never saw it.

Tom