Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2001 11:06:59 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: "David O'Brien" <dev-null@NUXI.com> Cc: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM>, Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>, Kirk McKusick <mckusick@beastie.mckusick.com>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proposed auto-sizing patch to sysinstall (was Re: Using a larger block size on large filesystems) Message-ID: <200112081906.fB8J6xi06097@apollo.backplane.com> References: <31807.1007732134@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> <200112072257.fB7MvjE95211@apollo.backplane.com> <200112072311.fB7NB2723789@whizzo.transsys.com> <p05101006b83737546907@[128.113.24.47]> <200112080349.fB83nWU00292@apollo.backplane.com> <20011208103048.C11428@dragon.nuxi.com>
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:On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 07:49:32PM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote:
:> We do not have enough partition id's to make a separate
:> /usr/local.
:
:Has anyone considered raising the max number of partitions from 8 to 16
:as OpenBSD did years ago?
Yes. We can't (in stable) without major device number surgery.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dillon@backplane.com>
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