Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 01:18:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Adrian Filipi-Martin <adrian@ubergeeks.com> To: Mark Newton <newton@internode.com.au> Cc: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Possibility of increasing default MAXPARTITIONS from 8 to 16 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990826011545.21944A-100000@lorax.ubergeeks.com> In-Reply-To: <199908242246.IAA12694@gizmo.internode.com.au>
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On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Mark Newton wrote: > Matthew Dillon wrote: > > > 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 makes sense; We wouldn't be the first to do it either (IRIX has > supported 16 partitions per spindle for years). The same is true for OpenBSD. I too run out of partitions and am in favor of this change. I'm not sure, but I think the OpenBSD folks did something that allowed them to remain compatible with the 8 partition labels. In any case, it groks SunOS and Solaris labels on my OpenBSD sparc. Adrian -- [ adrian@ubergeeks.com -- Ubergeeks Consulting -- http://www.ubergeeks.com/ ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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