Haai,
theo wrote:
> Groot <differentialr...@disr.it> wrote:
>
>> I've tried and failed to create more than 16
>> partitions on OpenBSD. First of all I don't
>> understand the difference between the operations
>> performed by fdisk and disklabel. Is it that
>> OpenBSD sees partitions differently? First we
>> create an OpenBSD partition with fdisk and then
>> with disklabel we can create at the most 16 more
>> filesystem partitions within it.
>>
>> But if I want more than 16 filesystem partitions
>> on a single disk naturally I try to create more
>> fdisk partitions and then within it lay more fs-
>> partitions. When I try that OpenBSD doesn't
>> recognize those partitions and I can't even run
>> 'newfs' on those partitions. Is there a way for
>> OpenBSD to deal with more than 16 partitions?
>>
>
> Sorry, there is no way.
>
> You can create a vnd, on a file, and then that vnd can contain
> partitions. But it might suck.
Me's configured a pair of consecutive softraid(4) partitions in concat
mode. Sees relatively light use, but performance has been adequate.
Previously, meused crypto w/ a passphrase of '0' (automagically read
from a file at boot), but that was just needlessly complicated.
Fixing vnd(4) to work on devices, or just adding a
'concat-of-1-volume' (perhaps call it 'L'ayer) "level" to softraid, is
what me'd recommend. But that doesn't seem to help Groot (right now).
Hope the above helps,
--zeurkous.
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