Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1998 13:30:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@www.hotjobs.com> Cc: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, dag-erli@ifi.uio.no, current@FreeBSD.ORG, jdp@polstra.com Subject: Re: Funky DEVFS stuff. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.980816133015.7671E-100000@current1.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980816160807.5053E-100000@bright.fx.genx.net>
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yep we know (but that doesn't mean we shouldn't be reminded) :-) julian On Sun, 16 Aug 1998, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > >By the way, how much work would it be to make using more than 8 > > >partitions per slice possible? > > > > None. Everything is possible in software :-), and in theory the > > MAXPARTITIONS parameter can simply be increased up to about 22 as in > > NetBSD. You also have to change at least the size of openmask bitmap > > variables in FreeBSD. Our default of setting the number of partitions to > > the max isn't so good if the max is large. Sysinstall would probably > > have problems displaying 22 partitions on a 25-line screen. It would > > be more work to support a flexibly sized array of partitions - several > > places want `struct disklabel' to actually be a struct. > > urm, sysinstall can't deal with SLICE/DEVFS, it says it can't find the > devices, someone has to mess with libdisk. > > -Alfred > -- > > Programmer @ HotJobs Inc. [- http://www.hotjobs.com/ -] > |-- There are operating systems, and then there's BSD. > \-- http://www.freebsd.org/ > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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