Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 15:54:56 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: FreeBSD Hackers List <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Possibility of increasing default MAXPARTITIONS from 8 to 16 Message-ID: <199908242254.PAA16075@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 24 Aug 1999 15:37:52 PDT." <199908242237.PAA18980@apollo.backplane.com>
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> The structure appears to be backwards compatible. > > The question I am putting to the group is whether it is "time" for us, > with today's large disks, to increase the system-compiled default > from 8 to 16 partitions. Instead of a-h we would have a-p It seems reasonable to me, although there may be issues with finding a bit in the minor number - I think they've pretty much all been taken. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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