Re: Possibility of increasing default MAXPARTITIONS from 8 to 16

[Julian Elischer]

On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote:

> :>     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
> :                                     [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
>     We can't use devfs for this, the partition id is already embedded in the
>     dev_t and it has to stay that way to remain compatible with the 
>     preexisting partition space.

A true devfs implementation (such as was deleted by Vikings inc.)  can
allocate the minor numbers arbitrarily. They are simply cookies and have
no embedded meaning.. 
SLICE started with 0 for the first disk-like object found and incemented
each time it found another. 

I'm very close to having it all working again..


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>                                       -Matt
>                                       Matthew Dillon 
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