> :> 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. > > Cripes! Now that is really annoying. da0a is 4,0 and da1a is 4,8.
Use devfs (it doesn't require major/minor numbers). Terry Lambert te...@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message