Amelia A Lewis <amyz...@talsever.com> wrote: > So, and I recognize that the answer might reasonably be "go read more > code and figure it out yourself," a question for Theo and others if you > have a moment: why couldn't an arch expand past sixteen? It seems, both > from the math calculating struct size (which may be mistaken, in which > case I apologize) and in the comment for MAXMAXPARTITIONS that more > *are* possible.
Because there is another reason. Here are the device nodes for two sequentially-numbered disks. brw-r----- 1 root operator 4, 0 Apr 17 11:50 sd0a brw-r----- 1 root operator 4, 1 Apr 17 11:50 sd0b brw-r----- 1 root operator 4, 2 Apr 17 11:50 sd0c brw-r----- 1 root operator 4, 3 Apr 17 11:50 sd0d brw-r----- 1 root operator 4, 4 Apr 17 11:50 sd0e brw-r----- 1 root operator 4, 5 Apr 17 11:50 sd0f brw-r----- 1 root operator 4, 6 Apr 17 11:50 sd0g brw-r----- 1 root operator 4, 7 Apr 17 11:50 sd0h brw-r----- 1 root operator 4, 8 Apr 17 11:50 sd0i brw-r----- 1 root operator 4, 9 Apr 17 11:50 sd0j brw-r----- 1 root operator 4, 10 Apr 17 11:50 sd0k brw-r----- 1 root operator 4, 11 Apr 17 11:50 sd0l brw-r----- 1 root operator 4, 12 Apr 17 11:50 sd0m brw-r----- 1 root operator 4, 13 Apr 17 11:50 sd0n brw-r----- 1 root operator 4, 14 Apr 17 11:50 sd0o brw-r----- 1 root operator 4, 15 Apr 17 11:50 sd0p brw-r----- 1 root operator 4, 16 Apr 17 11:50 sd1a brw-r----- 1 root operator 4, 17 Apr 17 11:50 sd1b brw-r----- 1 root operator 4, 18 Apr 17 11:50 sd1c brw-r----- 1 root operator 4, 19 Apr 17 11:50 sd1d brw-r----- 1 root operator 4, 20 Apr 17 11:50 sd1e brw-r----- 1 root operator 4, 21 Apr 17 11:50 sd1f brw-r----- 1 root operator 4, 22 Apr 17 11:50 sd1g brw-r----- 1 root operator 4, 23 Apr 17 11:50 sd1h brw-r----- 1 root operator 4, 24 Apr 17 11:50 sd1i brw-r----- 1 root operator 4, 25 Apr 17 11:50 sd1j brw-r----- 1 root operator 4, 26 Apr 17 11:50 sd1k brw-r----- 1 root operator 4, 27 Apr 17 11:50 sd1l brw-r----- 1 root operator 4, 28 Apr 17 11:50 sd1m brw-r----- 1 root operator 4, 29 Apr 17 11:50 sd1n brw-r----- 1 root operator 4, 30 Apr 17 11:50 sd1o brw-r----- 1 root operator 4, 31 Apr 17 11:50 sd1p Look very carefully at this column ^^
