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Date:      Tue, 20 Sep 2016 23:50:28 +0000
From:      Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org>, freebsd-xen@freebsd.org
Cc:        Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.ORG>, =?UTF-8?Q?Roger_Pau_Monn=c3=a9?= <royger@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: number of xen block devices
Message-ID:  <010001574a020428-e9afa92c-56ad-443f-bd48-8251f7810b78-000000@email.amazonses.com>
In-Reply-To: <73fad119-03d8-a9ea-c222-f65b22c6feac@freebsd.org>
References:  <73fad119-03d8-a9ea-c222-f65b22c6feac@freebsd.org>

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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.

-- 
Colin Percival
Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve
Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid



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