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Date:      Tue, 29 Apr 1997 04:30:53 -0700
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        Stephen McKay <syssgm@dtir.qld.gov.au>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: disklabel -- owner? 
Message-ID:  <199704291130.EAA13071@implode.root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 29 Apr 1997 20:46:02 %2B1000." <199704291046.UAA28580@ogre.dtir.qld.gov.au> 

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>On a related topic, the disk device numbers are arrange in an ugly
>way, presumably for backward compatibilty reasons.  Are these reasons
>still valid?

   Yes.

>Oh, and the existing dkmakeminor() doesn't handle unit > 31, though
>dkunit() does.  I presume nobody has 32 or more disks.  I haven't!

   That's very definately a bug. I don't know how I overlooked that when I
attempted to add support for sd units >31, but obviously I did.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project



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