Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!security!genrad!grkermit!masscomp!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!v.wales@ucla-locus From: v.wales%ucla-locus@sri-unix.UUCP Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Disk partitions Message-ID: <15704@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Wed, 18-Jan-84 19:11:32 EST Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.15704 Posted: Wed Jan 18 19:11:32 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 20-Jan-84 06:22:17 EST Lines: 13 From: Rich Wales It's fairly easy, by the way, to change the 8-partition-per-disk limit in the drivers and related kernel code. We did this at UCLA some time ago; when we started using Eagles (400-meg Winchesters), we changed to 32 partitions per disk (and also changed the device names to look like "/dev/up03.25"). There is a tradeoff, of course -- the number of drives per machine times the number of partitions per drive cannot exceed 256 -- but this hasn't presented any difficulty. -- Rich