Hi Strahil, Strahil Nikolov wrote on Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 11:16:41PM +0300:
> And who the hell needs more than 16 partitions ? Me, and i'm quite sure many do. It's certainly not a good idea to combine any partitions that are separate in a default install because there are good reasons for all the separations. Then, on a development machine, i want separate partitions for src, xenocara, ports and the related obj partitions. Then i need a noperm partition for building releases. And because i sometimes work on free software projects outside OpenBSD, i want a partition for source code control checkouts of other projects. I certainly don't want to to mix /co/ that into /home/ or /usr/src/. At this point, here is the bare minimum i typically have: 01 a / 02 b swap 03 c whole disk 04 d /tmp nodev nosuid 05 e /var nodev nosuid 06 f /usr nodev 07 g /usr/local nodev wxallowed 08 h /usr/src nodev nosuid 09 i /usr/obj nodev nosuid 10 j /usr/xenocara nodev nosuid 11 k /usr/xobj nodev nosuid 12 l /usr/ports nodev nosuid 13 m /usr/ports/pobj nodev nosuid wxallowed 14 n /co nodev nosuid 15 o /co/destdir nodev noexec noperm 16 p /home nodev nosuid So, i'm out of partitions before i even start doing anything even mildly special. I don't even have a single spare partition, even though having that would be quite useful for better keeping track of unused space on the disk that i might keep around for maybe using it later. The limitation to 16 partitions definitely feels painful to me. > Why not we just port ZFS from FreeBSD, or LVM from Linux For starters, neither are free software. Both are encumbered with very restrictive licenses that prevent using them last time i looked (CDDL and GPL). Besides, OpenBSD values code that is small, simple, and easy to audit, so i'm not sure whether these would qualify even if they were free. So trying to port them would be a waste of time. Trying to port HAMMER from DragonFly might be worthwhile, but a huge and difficult project, and i'm not sure it is related to the limitation of the number of partitions. Yours, Ingo
