If single-major device number allocation scheme is turned on, instead
of reserving 256 minors per device, which imposes a limit of 4096
images mapped at once, reserve 16 minors per device and enable extended
devt feature. This results in a theoretical limit of 65536 images
mapped at once, and still allows to have more than 15 partititions:
partitions starting with 16th are mapped under major 259 (Block
Extended Major):