Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 16:45:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: David Greenman <dg@root.com>, FreeBSD Hackers List <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Possibility of increasing default MAXPARTITIONS from 8 to 16 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.990824164433.8493G-100000@current1.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <199908242322.QAA19396@apollo.backplane.com>
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On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > 11111111 11111111 -------- 11111111 mask for uminor > > Our only hope as far as I can tell is to take the upper two bits of the > slice (bits 19 and 20) and use them for the partition instead. > > As far as I can tell, only slices 0-5 are used, requiring only 3 bits. > > Can someone check my work? Are bits 19 and 20 unused by any disk > devices? no there can be up to 32 slices (including the 2 special ones) requiring 5 bits. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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