Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 01:55:16 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: dillon@apollo.backplane.com (Matthew Dillon) Cc: dg@root.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Possibility of increasing default MAXPARTITIONS from 8 to 16 Message-ID: <199908250155.SAA16497@usr01.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199908242303.QAA19246@apollo.backplane.com> from "Matthew Dillon" at Aug 24, 99 04:03:27 pm
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> :> The question I am putting to the group is whether it is "time" for us, > :> with today's large disks, to increase the system-compiled default > :> from 8 to 16 partitions. Instead of a-h we would have a-p > : > : It seems reasonable to me, although there may be issues with finding a bit > :in the minor number - I think they've pretty much all been taken. > > Cripes! Now that is really annoying. da0a is 4,0 and da1a is 4,8. Use devfs (it doesn't require major/minor numbers). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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