> But BSD does have a limit of 8 partitions (with some reserved) in the
> disklabel, doesn't it?  That amounts to a similar limitation if
> someone needs to break apart big drives into many partitions.

But that limitation is different in that there is no secondary partition
table available, so this is a hard limit.  (Well, actually you could do
something similar to extended partitions, namely generate a vnd device on
one partition and disklabel that).

Someone should really implement something similar to the wedging scheme
Charles proposed a while ago.

Ciao,
Wolfgang
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