Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 18:45:58 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Harry Starr <starr3@gccs.com.au>, current <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: disk slices and MAKEDEV confusion Message-ID: <199905250145.SAA00951@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 24 May 1999 21:31:57 EDT." <Pine.GSO.3.96.990524212904.23719A-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu>
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> > > > The problem is that if you made all of the nodes for all of the > > supported slices, /dev would be incredibly bloated. There are 8 > > potential nodes per slice, and 20 potential slices per disk, plus the > > compatability slice, so that's 168 node pairs (raw and buffered) > > _per_disk_. > > > > According to the information in sys/diskslice.h, there are 32 slices per > disk, including the compatibility slice and the base slice. Am I right? There is an allowable maximum of 32 slices. In reality, the DOS partitioning scheme allows four partitions, each of which may be an "extended" partition containing four more. -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ -- Joseph Merrick \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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