At 8:44 Uhr -0600 13.2.2004, Frederick Bruckman wrote:
>There are other reasons besides speed. It makes it possible to set
>policies for backups, quotas, and permissions.

Yep. Think "NFS".

In short, single-partition setups are fine for single-user workstation use;
on a server machine, you want multiple partitions.

>When you factor in the
>fact that most drives on NetBSD/mac68k hosts have HFS partitions too,
>the current maximum of six useful partitions is very limiting. I think
>we should follow the lead of i386 and other ports, and do what it
>takes to permit up to sixteen.

Strongly seconded.

	hauke


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