Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 19:10:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, dg@root.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Possibility of increasing default MAXPARTITIONS from 8 to 16 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.990824190651.8493I-100000@current1.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <199908250201.TAA22850@apollo.backplane.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > :> 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 > > We can't use devfs for this, the partition id is already embedded in the > dev_t and it has to stay that way to remain compatible with the > preexisting partition space. A true devfs implementation (such as was deleted by Vikings inc.) can allocate the minor numbers arbitrarily. They are simply cookies and have no embedded meaning.. SLICE started with 0 for the first disk-like object found and incemented each time it found another. I'm very close to having it all working again.. > > -Matt > Matthew Dillon > <dillon@backplane.com> > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.BSF.3.95.990824190651.8493I-100000>