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.