Subject: Re: Bumping MAXPARTITIONS on NetBSD/sparc?
To: None <port-sparc@netbsd.org>
From: Harri Haataja <realblades@gmail.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 08/07/2006 21:33:19
On 15/06/06, Hauke Fath <hauke@espresso.rhein-neckar.de> wrote:
> At 16:56 Uhr +0200 31.5.2006, Martin Husemann wrote:
> >On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 10:12:06PM +0200, Hauke Fath wrote:
> >> Is there any chance of NetBSD/sparc going to MAXPARTITIONS = 16 like, say,
> >> i386 or macppc, before the port gets obsolete? Or, more perferably, before
> >> NetBSD 4?
> >Not on disks that you might boot from, IIUC.
>
> JFTR, I went with der Mouse's trick of configuring a one-element ccd, and
> created all the data partitions on it:
...
> - not elegant, but works for me.

There's still no non-backwards logical volume support (many lv's on a
vg) on NetBSD, is there?

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