> > > > The problem is that if you made all of the nodes for all of the > > supported slices, /dev would be incredibly bloated. There are 8 > > potential nodes per slice, and 20 potential slices per disk, plus the > > compatability slice, so that's 168 node pairs (raw and buffered) > > _per_disk_. > > > > According to the information in sys/diskslice.h, there are 32 slices per > disk, including the compatibility slice and the base slice. Am I right?
There is an allowable maximum of 32 slices. In reality, the DOS partitioning scheme allows four partitions, each of which may be an "extended" partition containing four more. -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ msm...@freebsd.org \\ -- Joseph Merrick \\ msm...@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
