Bruce Evans once wrote:
> > that may change as SCSI disk sizes keep climbing and too large
> > partitions take performance hits.
> >
> > alternative is to change MAXPARTITIONS? to 16?
>
> One reason is that the slice data format is better. It doesn't have
> arbitrary limits like 8 or 16 (it's essentially a linked list).
For a total of 3-5 slices/partitions/chunks like
/ /usr swap /home /var /tmp
I'd much rather have an array then a link list... And shorter device
names too... Is it worth it to keep the two tactics in place with the
kernel build option? I don't know... Sincerely,
-mi
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