Mike Long writes:
> > I also noticed
> >that OpenBSD disklabels support 16 partitions, and they are compatible
> >with NetBSD - if one uses 8 or less. Could we get 16 partitions to NetBSD
> >as well?
> 
> This is nontrivial to do, because of the way i386 disk drivers (or was
> it just wd?) allocate minor numbers.

I will point out that we do intend to fix the problem by changing the
width of a dev_t some time.

Perry