Re: Possibility of increasing default MAXPARTITIONS from 8 to 16

[Mark Newton]

Andrzej Bialecki wrote:

 > On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote:
 > 
 > >     I don't know about all of you, but for the last few years I've been
 > >     running out of partitions!  It's even worse with today's big disks.
 > 
 > I know it's not the answer, it's just related question: do you know
 > perhaps of any initiatives (except XFS) that could significantly shorten
 > time it takes fsck to check big filesystems, let's say 64GB? As it is now,
 > it's almost unbearable. I naively thought softupdates would (almost)
 > eliminate the need to do fsck...

The UFS checkpointing stuff Kirk is working on is supposed to be the
magic bullet that fixes this.  XFS will be kinda neat too.

   - mark

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