On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > 11111111 11111111 -------- 11111111 mask for uminor > > Our only hope as far as I can tell is to take the upper two bits of the > slice (bits 19 and 20) and use them for the partition instead. > > As far as I can tell, only slices 0-5 are used, requiring only 3 bits. > > Can someone check my work? Are bits 19 and 20 unused by any disk > devices?
no there can be up to 32 slices (including the 2 special ones) requiring 5 bits. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
