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Date:      Wed, 25 Aug 1999 01:55:16 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
To:        dillon@apollo.backplane.com (Matthew Dillon)
Cc:        dg@root.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Possibility of increasing default MAXPARTITIONS from 8 to 16
Message-ID:  <199908250155.SAA16497@usr01.primenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <199908242303.QAA19246@apollo.backplane.com> from "Matthew Dillon" at Aug 24, 99 04:03:27 pm

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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.
> 
>     Cripes!  Now that is really annoying.  da0a is 4,0 and da1a is 4,8.

Use devfs (it doesn't require major/minor numbers).


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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