Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 16:43:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: David Greenman <dg@root.com> Cc: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, FreeBSD Hackers List <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Possibility of increasing default MAXPARTITIONS from 8 to 16 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.990824164237.8493F-100000@current1.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <199908242254.PAA16075@implode.root.com>
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On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, David Greenman wrote: > > The structure appears to be backwards compatible. > > > > 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. Mmmmmph Mmmmmph! Mmmmph! (damned gags) > > -DG > > David Greenman > Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org > Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com > Pave the road of life with opportunities. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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