In some mail I received from Matthias Scheler, sie wrote
> 
> In article <199612050819.KAA04301@pyy.jmp.fi>,
> 	Jukka Marin <jmarin@pyy.jmp.fi> writes:
> > Why is this limit there?
> 
> Historical reason AFAIK.
> 
> > It's pretty... limiting ;) ...
> 
> Yes, I agree. But as far as I remember someone told that it is not so
> easy to remove increase this limit to e.g. 16.

Hmmm, if there were partitions within partitions and you could mount from any
partition, wouldn't that be better ?

So, you have 3 DOS partitions, each being 700MB (say) on a 2.1GB disk, and
then have within those smaller partitions, each having upto 8 partitions.

so you have like wd0s[0-3][a-h] for the first disk...or something else
because of non-primary partitions.

FreeBSD can do this...:

/dev/wd0a           30206    24414     3376    88%    /
/dev/wd0s3a         76239    16131    54009    23%    /opt
/dev/wd0s2e        265310   249630    -5544   102%    /usr
/dev/wd0s3g         98479    33211    57390    37%    /usr/local
/dev/wd0s3e         39950    13796    22958    38%    /var
/dev/wd2s4a         31279    11233    18483    38%    /netbsd
/dev/wd2s4e        248335   107127   128792    45%    /netbsd/usr
/dev/wd0s3f         39950      204    36550     1%    /netbsd/var
/dev/wd0s3h         98479       23    90578     0%    /netbsd/usr/local

Surely by now NetBSD can recognise more than one BSD partition on a disk...

Darren