From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Aug 24 16: 6:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [209.157.86.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADDBE15946 for ; Tue, 24 Aug 1999 16:05:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id QAA19246; Tue, 24 Aug 1999 16:03:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 16:03:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <199908242303.QAA19246@apollo.backplane.com> To: David Greenman Cc: FreeBSD Hackers List Subject: Re: Possibility of increasing default MAXPARTITIONS from 8 to 16 References: <199908242254.PAA16075@implode.root.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG :> 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 Cripes! Now that is really annoying. da0a is 4,0 and da1a is 4,8. -Matt Matthew Dillon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message