Re: Possibility of increasing default MAXPARTITIONS from 8 to 16

[Terry Lambert]

> :>     Cripes!  Now that is really annoying.  da0a is 4,0 and da1a is 4,8.
> :
> :Use devfs (it doesn't require major/minor numbers).
> 
>     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.

Too bad you are not as willing to abandon your existing partition
space as quickly as you are willing to abandon your historical
disklabel format, or you wouldn't be having this problem.  8-).


                                        Terry Lambert
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