On 10/26/99, 6:05:25 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Guest section DW) wrote
regarding Re: Devices limit:
> Alan writes:
> > How many partitions you can create per drive depends on type
> > but right now we only allow 16 per disk, giving you a 32Gb ceiling.
> I have not followed this discussion, so perhaps the topic was
> something else, but the limit of 15 partitions per disk is
> because of lack of minor space. With large device numbers it is gone.
> Also, there is a size limit that is 1 TB or more, not 2 GB.
> 2 GB is the size limit on a file.
> Andries
Ah Ha! Please explain more about " large device numbers". I understand
running out of minor space; is this a change to the device schema?
I am sorry I wasn't clearer before - I understand the limit imposed by
SCSI spec on the number of physical devices. I am concerned with
creating a large number of partitions on one physical device (a RAID
array).
Thank you very much,
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