From owner-freebsd-current Sun Aug 16 13:08:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA16736 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 16 Aug 1998 13:08:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bright.fx.genx.net (bright.fx.genx.net [206.64.4.154]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA16726 for ; Sun, 16 Aug 1998 13:08:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@www.hotjobs.com) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by bright.fx.genx.net (8.9.1/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA07130; Sun, 16 Aug 1998 16:08:54 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from bright@hotjobs.com) X-Authentication-Warning: bright.fx.genx.net: bright owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1998 16:08:54 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein X-Sender: bright@bright.fx.genx.net To: Bruce Evans cc: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no, current@FreeBSD.ORG, jdp@polstra.com, julian@whistle.com Subject: Re: Funky DEVFS stuff. In-Reply-To: <199808161056.UAA04271@godzilla.zeta.org.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >By the way, how much work would it be to make using more than 8 > >partitions per slice possible? > > None. Everything is possible in software :-), and in theory the > MAXPARTITIONS parameter can simply be increased up to about 22 as in > NetBSD. You also have to change at least the size of openmask bitmap > variables in FreeBSD. Our default of setting the number of partitions to > the max isn't so good if the max is large. Sysinstall would probably > have problems displaying 22 partitions on a 25-line screen. It would > be more work to support a flexibly sized array of partitions - several > places want `struct disklabel' to actually be a struct. urm, sysinstall can't deal with SLICE/DEVFS, it says it can't find the devices, someone has to mess with libdisk. -Alfred -- Programmer @ HotJobs Inc. [- http://www.hotjobs.com/ -] |-- There are operating systems, and then there's BSD. \-- http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message