In article <20001228111311.A5944@spathi.chuq.com>,
	Chuck Silvers <chuq@chuq.com> writes:
> however, the use of high minor numbers to represent normal disks is
> a currently supported feature of the official NetBSD distribution,
> and changing the interpretation of the minor number would break that.

Right now we have ports with a maximum of 16 partitions and 65536 disks.
and ports with a maximum of 8 partitions and 131072 disks. With my
patches all ports will support 16 partitions and 65536 disks which
IMHO makes much more sense.

	Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                                         http://core.de/~tron/