> > I think if you grep through all the system source files,
> > you will find that a considerable number of them know
> > about disklabels.  Many of them are likely to have "8"
> > hard-coded, instead of using the value from a header file.
>
>In NetBSD?!  Umm, probably not... we have a couple of ports that have
>MAXPARTITIONS == 16 (amiga, mac68k, others?) and they work fine.

dk_openmask has (sizeof(int) * CHAR_BIT) implicitly hard-coded.

Bruce