From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Aug 24 18:57:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2005815675 for ; Tue, 24 Aug 1999 18:57:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr01.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA24226; Tue, 24 Aug 1999 18:55:06 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr01.primenet.com(206.165.6.201) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpdAAAIQaOsV; Tue Aug 24 18:55:00 1999 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr01.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA16497; Tue, 24 Aug 1999 18:55:16 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199908250155.SAA16497@usr01.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Possibility of increasing default MAXPARTITIONS from 8 to 16 To: dillon@apollo.backplane.com (Matthew Dillon) Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 01:55:16 +0000 (GMT) Cc: dg@root.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199908242303.QAA19246@apollo.backplane.com> from "Matthew Dillon" at Aug 24, 99 04:03:27 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 > :> 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. > > Cripes! Now that is really annoying. da0a is 4,0 and da1a is 4,8. Use devfs (it doesn't require major/minor numbers). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message