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Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 14:23:05 +0100 (MET)
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From: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@csd.uu.se>
To: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH - RFC] number of Solaris slices
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On Sat, 6 Dec 2003 23:17:22 +0100 (MET), Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote:
>People tell me that SOLARIS_X86_NUMSLICE should be 16 instead of 8.
>And it seems there is some truth in that.
>
>On the other hand, there have certainly been times that 8 was the
>right number. Instead of using a define for the number of slices
>(partitions, if you prefer), is it OK for all Solaris versions to
>use v->v_nparts?

Your patch didn't break my dual boot Linux + Sol8 x86 box.
It has about 8 slices in the Solaris partition.

/Mikael