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. -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ -- Joseph Merrick \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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