From owner-freebsd-current Sun Aug 16 13:34:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA20069 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 16 Aug 1998 13:34:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA20059 for ; Sun, 16 Aug 1998 13:34:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA13280; Sun, 16 Aug 1998 13:31:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from current1.whistle.com(207.76.205.22) via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpdu13276; Sun Aug 16 20:30:56 1998 Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1998 13:30:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: Alfred Perlstein cc: Bruce Evans , dag-erli@ifi.uio.no, current@FreeBSD.ORG, jdp@polstra.com Subject: Re: Funky DEVFS stuff. In-Reply-To: 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 yep we know (but that doesn't mean we shouldn't be reminded) :-) julian On Sun, 16 Aug 1998, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > >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