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Date:      Sun, 25 Sep 2016 19:11:36 -0700
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org>
To:        Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com>, Michael Sierchio <kudzu@tenebras.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Lists <freebsd-xen@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: number of xen block devices
Message-ID:  <4ef07a55-76f8-a55e-aa93-2a2fdee62696@freebsd.org>
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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.





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