From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Aug 24 16:43:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB4D3151AA for ; Tue, 24 Aug 1999 16:43:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: from current1.whistle.com (current1.whistle.com [207.76.205.22]) by alpo.whistle.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id QAA71328; Tue, 24 Aug 1999 16:43:14 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 16:43:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: David Greenman Cc: Matthew Dillon , FreeBSD Hackers List Subject: Re: Possibility of increasing default MAXPARTITIONS from 8 to 16 In-Reply-To: <199908242254.PAA16075@implode.root.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, David Greenman wrote: > > 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. Mmmmmph Mmmmmph! Mmmmph! (damned gags) > > -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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message