Re: Possibility of increasing default MAXPARTITIONS from 8 to 16

[Terry Lambert]

> :>    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
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