Re: Possibility of increasing default MAXPARTITIONS from 8 to 16

[Adrian Filipi-Martin]

On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Mark Newton wrote:

> Matthew Dillon wrote:
> 
>  >     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 makes sense;  We wouldn't be the first to do it either (IRIX has
> supported 16 partitions per spindle for years).

        The same is true for OpenBSD.  I too run out of partitions and am
in favor of this change.  

        I'm not sure, but I think the OpenBSD folks did something that
allowed them to remain compatible with the 8 partition labels.  In any
case, it groks SunOS and Solaris labels on my OpenBSD sparc.

        Adrian
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