Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 19:24:50 -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: <199908250224.TAA23064@apollo.backplane.com> References: <199908250218.TAA17723@usr01.primenet.com>
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:> :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
When devfs is the only way to access devices we can abandon
traditional device major/minor id's.
-Matt
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