number of xen block devices

Colin Percival cperciva at tarsnap.com
Tue Sep 20 23:50:36 UTC 2016


On 09/20/16 16:33, Julian Elischer wrote:
> Is there a maximum number of block devices supported for an AMI type
> installation?

Does "AMI type installation" mean EC2?

> Our tests a while back showed a limit of 14.
> 
> Has that changed in 10.3?
> 
> If not is it an artificial limit we can get past by simply recompiling something?

There was a bug a while back which resulted in high-numbered xbd
devices not showing up; I fixed that three years ago in r255051,
shortly before stable/10 branched.

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Colin Percival
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