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Subject: Re: Possibility of increasing default MAXPARTITIONS from 8 to 16
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:>     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

    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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