Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 11:21:48 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> To: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Gregory Bond <gnb@itga.com.au>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Removal of Disklabel Message-ID: <200012021921.eB2JLmd64092@earth.backplane.com> References: <200011210459.PAA28469@lightning.itga.com.au> <20001121000936.C27827@dragon.nuxi.com>
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: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
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:OpenBSD has 16 / disk.
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:-- 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
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