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Re: [Xen-devel] adding more than one disk.

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Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] adding more than one disk.
From: Mark Williamson <Mark.Williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 13:18:10 +0000
Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@xxxxxxxxxx>, "Ronald G. Minnich" <rminnich@xxxxxxxx>
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> Unliked netif devices, there is only one blkif device (that is one
> blk_handle) for all of your vbds within a domain.  There is also only
> one event channel (again, this is different than netif devices).  I'm
> not sure if there are scenarios where you would have multiple blkif
> devices...

You'd use multiple block interfaces to use devices provided by multiple 
backend domains.  i.e. it doesn't happen in typical setups

Cheers,
Mark

> >Is my expectation wrong or is something else going on that I missed?
>
> Is there some sort of problem with Plan9?  What exact is happening?  The
> above statements are for Linux.  I don't know if things are somehow
> different under Plan9..
>
> >thanks
> >
> >ron
> >p.s. I actually now have two plan 9/xen users out there ... 2 more than I
> >had a month ago. So a month ago there was one, now 3 ... at this rate we
> >should take over the planet in no time.
>
> Is there an image of Plan9 somewhere?  I'm currently rebuilding my main
> machine and would love to throw a copy of it in the mix and be #4 :-)
>
> Regards,
> Anthony Liguori
>
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