Re: Disk partitioning (was: Daemon's Advocate article)

[Garance A Drosihn <drosih@xxxxxxx>]

At 12:34 PM -0800 3/3/04, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> :>   There may be problems with NetBSD and OpenBSD in this environment,
> :>   due to the partition naming conventions.  I don't expect Dragonfly
> :>   to have any problems.
> :
> : NetBSD and OpenBSD have the advantage of allowing the specification
> : of subartitions outside the slice and therefore the use to access
> : e.g. such hidden partitions from point 1. FreeBSD has a limit
> : of 8 partitions, OpenBSD and maybe NetBSD too of 16.
> :
> :Joerg
>
>     There is actually room for 16, but the dev minor number does
>     not have enough bits to specify more then 8.

Could we do something slimy, like have another device major-number
which means "the second 8-partitions of a disk"?

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