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Date:      Tue, 24 Aug 1999 22:28:18 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
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:  <199908250528.WAA00864@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 24 Aug 1999 16:03:27 PDT." <199908242303.QAA19246@apollo.backplane.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.

DEVFS/SLICE to the rescue.

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\\  The mind's the standard       \\  Mike Smith
\\  of the man.                   \\  msmith@freebsd.org
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