From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Aug 24 15:48:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from gizmo.internode.com.au (gizmo.internode.com.au [192.83.231.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F04F81525D for ; Tue, 24 Aug 1999 15:48:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from newton@gizmo.internode.com.au) Received: (from newton@localhost) by gizmo.internode.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id IAA12694; Wed, 25 Aug 1999 08:16:23 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from newton) From: Mark Newton Message-Id: <199908242246.IAA12694@gizmo.internode.com.au> Subject: Re: Possibility of increasing default MAXPARTITIONS from 8 to 16 To: dillon@apollo.backplane.com (Matthew Dillon) Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 08:16:23 +0930 (CST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199908242237.PAA18980@apollo.backplane.com> from "Matthew Dillon" at Aug 24, 99 03:37:52 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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). Have you made the change on your hackbox already to make sure it doesn't have any negative implications? - mark ---- Mark Newton Email: newton@internode.com.au (W) Network Engineer Email: newton@atdot.dotat.org (H) Internode Systems Pty Ltd Desk: +61-8-82232999 "Network Man" - Anagram of "Mark Newton" Mobile: +61-416-202-223 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message