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

[David Muench <davemuench@xxxxxxxxx>]

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
>
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>


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