Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1998 16:08:54 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@www.hotjobs.com> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no, current@FreeBSD.ORG, jdp@polstra.com, julian@whistle.com Subject: Re: Funky DEVFS stuff. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980816160807.5053E-100000@bright.fx.genx.net> In-Reply-To: <199808161056.UAA04271@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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> >By the way, how much work would it be to make using more than 8 > >partitions per slice possible? > > None. Everything is possible in software :-), and in theory the > MAXPARTITIONS parameter can simply be increased up to about 22 as in > NetBSD. You also have to change at least the size of openmask bitmap > variables in FreeBSD. Our default of setting the number of partitions to > the max isn't so good if the max is large. Sysinstall would probably > have problems displaying 22 partitions on a 25-line screen. It would > be more work to support a flexibly sized array of partitions - several > places want `struct disklabel' to actually be a struct. urm, sysinstall can't deal with SLICE/DEVFS, it says it can't find the devices, someone has to mess with libdisk. -Alfred -- Programmer @ HotJobs Inc. [- http://www.hotjobs.com/ -] |-- There are operating systems, and then there's BSD. \-- http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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