On Sat, Nov 17, 2018 at 02:22:01PM -0500, Adam Stouffer wrote:
> On 11/17/2018 10:58 AM, Peter Hessler wrote:
> >
> > Yes, the fix is "don't use a single root partition" and instead
> > "partition your damn disk as intended".
> >
> >
>
> So what is the maximum root partition size or don't you know because this is
> an unintended bug?
>
> I've been an OpenBSD user for nearly 20 years now. I started with release
> 2.3 running on a Sparc and migrated to Alpha for many years and settled on
> amd64 currently. It seems like the time has come to part ways with an
> operating system that cannot handle a 160Gb root partition. Soon 16 Terabyte
> drives are going to be sold and you're telling me that using 1% of that
> space for / will result in an system unable to boot?
>
> We are no longer running on 5Mb RL01 disk packs. Time to get with the
> decade.
>
Please enlighten us why developers spending time on this would be a
good thing, in other words, why would you *want* a 160G root
partition?
-Otto
