Re: Possibility of increasing default MAXPARTITIONS from 8 to 16

[Matthew Dillon]

:> :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
:                                       [EMAIL PROTECTED]

    When devfs is the only way to access devices we can abandon
    traditional device major/minor id's.

                                        -Matt



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