Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 16:03:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: David Greenman <dg@root.com> Cc: FreeBSD Hackers List <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Possibility of increasing default MAXPARTITIONS from 8 to 16 Message-ID: <199908242303.QAA19246@apollo.backplane.com> References: <199908242254.PAA16075@implode.root.com>
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:> 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
<dillon@backplane.com>
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