Re: Possibility of increasing default MAXPARTITIONS from 8 to 16

[David Greenman]

>    The structure appears to be backwards compatible.
>
>    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.

-DG

David Greenman
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