from Michael van Elst:

> mueller6...@twc.com ("Thomas Mueller") writes:

> >It's a nuisance not to be able to recognize all partitions on a 
> >GPT-partitioned drive because not enough dk* nodes have been configured.  
> >FreeBSD even distinguishes between USB or SCSI disks and SATA disks, and 
> >between GPT
  partitions and MBR-based partitions: better than Linux in that regard.

> We don't even use MBR based partitions, that's just compatibility for 
> firwmare.
> We also have a "enough dk* nodes" mode but that's disabled by default.

> I personally think that all the "we don't do things like system X" claims
> are a nuisance.

Where do I find the "enough dk* nodes" mode?  Would it be in the kernel config? 
 I never saw it.

Tom

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