[geeks] Solaris resiliency to crashing w/full root partition?

[Patrick Giagnocavo 717-201-3366]

On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 18:52, velociraptor wrote:
> On 9/28/05, Jonathan C. Patschke <jp at celestrion.net> wrote:
> 
> With larger disks, you run into partition use constraints if you are using
> Solaris LVM (partition-based LVM, not disk-based like Veritas) b/c you
> have a limit of 6 useable partitions (8 -1 (s2) for the "backup" slice
> and -1 slice for your metadbs...)

If you are talking about the built-in Solaris Disk Suite tools, you can use "soft partitions" to give yourself a great number of partitions; but there might be some limitations to that.

--Patrick