From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Aug 24 19:18:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5E1F153DF for ; Tue, 24 Aug 1999 19:18:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr01.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA25814; Tue, 24 Aug 1999 19:18:34 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr01.primenet.com(206.165.6.201) via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpd025762; Tue Aug 24 19:18:26 1999 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr01.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA17723; Tue, 24 Aug 1999 19:18:24 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199908250218.TAA17723@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 02:18:23 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, dg@root.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199908250201.TAA22850@apollo.backplane.com> from "Matthew Dillon" at Aug 24, 99 07:01:50 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 > :> Cripes! Now that is really annoying. da0a is 4,0 and da1a is 4,8. > : > :Use devfs (it doesn't require major/minor numbers). > > 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. Too bad you are not as willing to abandon your existing partition space as quickly as you are willing to abandon your historical disklabel format, or you wouldn't be having this problem. 8-). 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