From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Dec 2 11:21:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from earth.backplane.com (placeholder-dcat-1076843399.broadbandoffice.net [64.47.83.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51A6937B400; Sat, 2 Dec 2000 11:21:50 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by earth.backplane.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) id eB2JLmd64092; Sat, 2 Dec 2000 11:21:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 11:21:48 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Dillon Message-Id: <200012021921.eB2JLmd64092@earth.backplane.com> To: "David O'Brien" Cc: Gregory Bond , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Removal of Disklabel References: <200011210459.PAA28469@lightning.itga.com.au> <20001121000936.C27827@dragon.nuxi.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG :On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 03:59:15PM +1100, Gregory Bond wrote: :> I know of no Unix variant with more than 8 partitions/ disk : :OpenBSD has 16 / disk. : :-- :-- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) : GNU is Not Unix / Linux Is Not UniX The only thing preventing us from having 16 is our device number mapping. Unfortunately, there is no truely clean way to add another bit in the right place. We would have to scrap an existing bit elsewhere (which may not be such a bad thing). Eventually we won't need device nubers at all, but for now we are somewhat stuck. -Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message