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To: Stephen McKay <syssgm@dtir.qld.gov.au>
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Subject: Re: disklabel -- owner? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 29 Apr 1997 20:46:02 +1000."
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 04:30:53 -0700
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>On a related topic, the disk device numbers are arrange in an ugly
>way, presumably for backward compatibilty reasons.  Are these reasons
>still valid?

   Yes.

>Oh, and the existing dkmakeminor() doesn't handle unit > 31, though
>dkunit() does.  I presume nobody has 32 or more disks.  I haven't!

   That's very definately a bug. I don't know how I overlooked that when I
attempted to add support for sd units >31, but obviously I did.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project