From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Anthony Liguori Subject: Re: adding more than one disk. Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 22:43:04 -0600 Message-ID: <421420D8.9080808@us.ibm.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: Sender: xen-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: xen-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: "Ronald G. Minnich" Cc: xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Ronald G. Minnich wrote: >If I set up my xen file as follows: >disk = [ 'phy:loop0,loop0,w', 'phy:loop1,loop1,w'] > >I realize I should USTL but it seemed to me I should expect blkif changed >messages for each vbd. I'm only getting the messages once. > >i.e. I see this: >===========> blkif_status_change to 1 >===========> blkif_status_change to 2 >===========> evtchn for blkif is 3 >====> enable disk interrupt >=========> controller connected > > >For the first disk, and that's it. Shouldn't I see two of these sets of >messages, one for each disk? > > 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... >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 ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click