number of xen block devices

[Julian Elischer]

On 21/09/2016 11:26 AM, Colin Percival wrote:
> On 09/21/16 09:13, Michael Sierchio wrote:
>> Also check if there is a resource limit imposed by AWS. If you are bumping
>> into that, a simple request can get the limit raised for a particular
>> availability zone.
> AWS limits can be an issue, but it would be a limit on the number or size of
> the EBS volumes can *create*.  Once volumes are created, AWS limits won't
> affect whether you can attach them to instances or whether the instances can
> see the attached volumes, so I doubt that's what Julian was running into.
>
yes, Colin has it right..  our virtual device is based on 8.0 plus 
patches from later, and can't see all the devices we create.

I am moving to 10.3 this week so the problem may be self fixing.