From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Aug 24 15:55:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from implode.root.com (root.com [209.102.106.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 037B415133 for ; Tue, 24 Aug 1999 15:55:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dg@implode.root.com) Received: from implode.root.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by implode.root.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA16075; Tue, 24 Aug 1999 15:54:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199908242254.PAA16075@implode.root.com> To: Matthew Dillon Cc: FreeBSD Hackers List Subject: Re: Possibility of increasing default MAXPARTITIONS from 8 to 16 In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 24 Aug 1999 15:37:52 PDT." <199908242237.PAA18980@apollo.backplane.com> From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 15:54:56 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > The structure appears to be backwards compatible. > > 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 Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message