Disk partitioning (was: Daemon's Advocate article)

[Matthew Dillon]

:Could we do something slimy, like have another device major-number
:which means "the second 8-partitions of a disk"?
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:Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad at xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

    In a word:  yes, we can.  We could also steal a bit from the
    slice portion of the minor number , reducing max slices
    from 32 to 16.  I think this would be easier.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
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