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[Xen-users] Re: Can Xen deal with minors greater than 255?

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Subject: [Xen-users] Re: Can Xen deal with minors greater than 255?
From: David Muench <davemuench@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2006 17:25:04 -0500
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Anybody?

Should I file a bug?

Thanks,
Dave

On 2/3/06, David Muench <davemuench@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Forgot to mention, I'm running Xen 2.0.7.
>
> Dave
>
> On 2/3/06, David Muench <davemuench@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I've been reworking my Xen setup again, and am having problems adding
> > an AOE (ata over ethernet) device to a domU. If I assign the
> > /dev/etherd/e1.0p1 directly to the domU, I get this error:
> >
> > root@sol:/dom/luna# xm create luna.conf -c
> > Using config file "luna.conf".
> > Error: Adding extent to vbd failed: device (vbd (uname
> > phy:etherd/e1.0p1) (dev sda1) (mode w)), error 8
> > root@sol:/dom/luna#
> >
> > Here is the disk line from my luna.conf:
> >
> > disk = ['phy:etherd/e1.0p1,sda1,w', 'phy:etherd/e1.0p2,sdb1,w']
> >
> > I noticed my e1.0 devices have a minor greater than 255:
> >
> > brw-rw----  1 root disk 152,  256 Feb  3 08:04 e1.0
> > brw-rw----  1 root disk 152,  257 Feb  3 10:21 e1.0p1
> > brw-rw----  1 root disk 152,  258 Feb  3 10:21 e1.0p2
> >
> > I made a test e0.0 device to test the theory:
> >
> > brw-rw----  1 root disk 152,    0 Feb  3 11:30 e0.0
> > brw-rw----  1 root disk 152,    1 Feb  3 11:30 e0.0p1
> >
> > And I can assign that without problems.
> >
> > My AOE minors go well up into the thousands - is there a workaround?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Dave
> >
> > --
> > David Muench - davemuench@xxxxxxxxx
> > Jabber/Google Talk: davemuench@xxxxxxxxx
> >
>
>
> --
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