Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 19:01:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: dg@root.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Possibility of increasing default MAXPARTITIONS from 8 to 16 Message-ID: <199908250201.TAA22850@apollo.backplane.com> References: <199908250155.SAA16497@usr01.primenet.com>
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:> Cripes! Now that is really annoying. da0a is 4,0 and da1a is 4,8.
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:Use devfs (it doesn't require major/minor numbers).
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: Terry Lambert
: terry@lambert.org
We can't use devfs for this, the partition id is already embedded in the
dev_t and it has to stay that way to remain compatible with the
preexisting partition space.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dillon@backplane.com>
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