From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Aug 24 22:34:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles553.castles.com [208.214.165.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58EC014F0F for ; Tue, 24 Aug 1999 22:34:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA00864; Tue, 24 Aug 1999 22:28:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199908250528.WAA00864@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Matthew Dillon Cc: David Greenman , FreeBSD Hackers List Subject: Re: Possibility of increasing default MAXPARTITIONS from 8 to 16 In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 24 Aug 1999 16:03:27 PDT." <199908242303.QAA19246@apollo.backplane.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 22:28:18 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > :> The question I am putting to the group is whether it is "time" for us, > :> with today's large disks, to increase the system-compiled default > :> from 8 to 16 partitions. Instead of a-h we would have a-p > : > : It seems reasonable to me, although there may be issues with finding a bit > :in the minor number - I think they've pretty much all been taken. > : > :-DG > : > :David Greenman > > Cripes! Now that is really annoying. da0a is 4,0 and da1a is 4,8. DEVFS/SLICE to the rescue. -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ -- Joseph Merrick \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message