From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Aug 24 19:25:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [209.157.86.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A1A7150DD for ; Tue, 24 Aug 1999 19:25:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id TAA23064; Tue, 24 Aug 1999 19:24:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 19:24:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <199908250224.TAA23064@apollo.backplane.com> To: Terry Lambert Cc: dg@root.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Possibility of increasing default MAXPARTITIONS from 8 to 16 References: <199908250218.TAA17723@usr01.primenet.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG :> :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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message