On Sun, Jun 11, 2000 at 07:54:34PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 11, 2000 at 06:34:55PM +0100, Dave Tyson wrote:
> > Is there any change that the number of entries in the disktable could
> > be increased from the current value of 8 to say 12 or 16 for the i386
> > port (and maybe some others). Hard disk sizes have increased rapidly and
> > the current partition count is a real pain if you want to have several
> > o/s on one disk and be able to access them concurrently.
> > 
> > Since 1.5* will be a completely different animal to 1.4*, it would seem
> > this would be a good time to move. Comments ?
> 
> This has been hashed several times, and such a move isn't trivial to keep
> backward-compatibility. It's not something that can be done in a few weeks.

Ops, "few days" I meant.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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