From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 25 22:19:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from lorax.ubergeeks.com (lorax.ubergeeks.com [206.205.41.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D44B415013 for ; Wed, 25 Aug 1999 22:19:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adrian@ubergeeks.com) Received: from localhost (adrian@localhost) by lorax.ubergeeks.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id BAA21953; Thu, 26 Aug 1999 01:18:05 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from adrian@ubergeeks.com) Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 01:18:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Adrian Filipi-Martin Reply-To: Adrian Filipi-Martin To: Mark Newton Cc: Matthew Dillon , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Possibility of increasing default MAXPARTITIONS from 8 to 16 In-Reply-To: <199908242246.IAA12694@gizmo.internode.com.au> 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 Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Mark Newton wrote: > Matthew Dillon wrote: > > > 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 makes sense; We wouldn't be the first to do it either (IRIX has > supported 16 partitions per spindle for years). The same is true for OpenBSD. I too run out of partitions and am in favor of this change. I'm not sure, but I think the OpenBSD folks did something that allowed them to remain compatible with the 8 partition labels. In any case, it groks SunOS and Solaris labels on my OpenBSD sparc. Adrian -- [ adrian@ubergeeks.com -- Ubergeeks Consulting -- http://www.ubergeeks.com/ ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message