From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Aug 24 19:12:25 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 4753F15205 for ; Tue, 24 Aug 1999 19:12:24 -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 TAA77792; Tue, 24 Aug 1999 19:09:55 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 19:10:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: Matthew Dillon Cc: Terry Lambert , dg@root.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Possibility of increasing default MAXPARTITIONS from 8 to 16 In-Reply-To: <199908250201.TAA22850@apollo.backplane.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, Matthew Dillon wrote: > :> 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. A true devfs implementation (such as was deleted by Vikings inc.) can allocate the minor numbers arbitrarily. They are simply cookies and have no embedded meaning.. SLICE started with 0 for the first disk-like object found and incemented each time it found another. I'm very close to having it all working again.. > > -Matt > Matthew Dillon > > > > 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