From owner-freebsd-arch Sat Dec 8 11: 7: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [216.240.41.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FE4137B417 for ; Sat, 8 Dec 2001 11:07:00 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.11.6/8.9.1) id fB8J6xi06097; Sat, 8 Dec 2001 11:06:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2001 11:06:59 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <200112081906.fB8J6xi06097@apollo.backplane.com> To: "David O'Brien" Cc: Garance A Drosihn , "Louis A. Mamakos" , Sheldon Hearn , Kirk McKusick , freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proposed auto-sizing patch to sysinstall (was Re: Using a larger block size on large filesystems) References: <31807.1007732134@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> <200112072257.fB7MvjE95211@apollo.backplane.com> <200112072311.fB7NB2723789@whizzo.transsys.com> <200112080349.fB83nWU00292@apollo.backplane.com> <20011208103048.C11428@dragon.nuxi.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG :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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message