Re: Possibility of increasing default MAXPARTITIONS from 8 to 16

[Julian Elischer]

On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote:
>       11111111 11111111 -------- 11111111             mask for uminor
> 
>     Our only hope as far as I can tell is to take the upper two bits of the
>     slice (bits 19 and 20) and use them for the partition instead.
> 
>     As far as I can tell, only slices 0-5 are used, requiring only 3 bits.
> 
>     Can someone check my work?  Are bits 19 and 20 unused by any disk 
>     devices?

no there can be up to 32 slices (including the 2 special ones)
requiring 5 bits.





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