v.wales%ucla-locus@sri-unix.UUCP (01/19/84)
From: Rich Wales <v.wales@ucla-locus> 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 <v.wales@UCLA-LOCUS>