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To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: disklabel -- owner? 
Reply-To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 10:58:09 -0700
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On Thu, 24 Apr 1997 20:25:18 +1000 
 Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> wrote:

 > Strangely enough, NetBSD supports up to 22 partitions.

...well, that's MAXMAXPARTITIONS ... i.e. any more, and you don't fit
in a DEV_BSIZE block.  Most NetBSD platforms set MAXPARTITIONS at 8.

There's actually a good reason to NOT change this on existing platforms..
You screw minor number compatibility with existing installed base.  That's
annoying, at least.  I'd classify it as stupid, personally :-)

Jason R. Thorpe                                       thorpej@nas.nasa.gov
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