"Perry E. Metzger" sez:
# 
# david@mono.org writes:
# [in response to who-knows-who@who-knows-where.com]:
# > 	Shift the i386 port to 16 partitions per disk, or lose the
# > 	'partition d not c' braindamage?
# > 	(I believe OpenBSD has done both of these - this is not intended
# > 	as any kind of flamebait, just a point of reference)	
# 
# If anyone can submit patches to do this and they are clean I'll try to
# put them in.

For that matter, this could even be done for the SPARC port.  It's just
that the other eight partitions would not be bootable...

# 
# Perry