From owner-freebsd-emulation Thu Feb 28 15:47: 4 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from scaup.prod.itd.earthlink.net (scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E275C37B405; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 15:46:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0128.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.42.128] helo=mindspring.com) by scaup.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16gaFu-00071K-00; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 15:46:35 -0800 Message-ID: <3C7EC14A.9D3DC098@mindspring.com> Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 15:46:18 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Patrick Thomas Cc: Nik Clayton , Kirk Strauser , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: using vnconfig devices instead of partitions for jails ? References: <20020228144213.P29049-100000@utility.clubscholarship.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Patrick Thomas wrote: > How many mount points (jails, in this case) can I run ? I see that there > are 8 existing vn0X device files in /dev - can I just create more of them > using MAKEDEV (or mknod) and keep going ? > > What is the maximum ? 256 ? Depends. Expect 256 to be available in all versions. > also, do I need to alter the kernel to support more vn0X device files, or > does a stock kernel support all the way up to the maximum (whatever that > is - see previous question :) They are allocated as they are configed, so the limitation is the number of minor devices. Note: I personally run 13 jails on the laptop from which I am currently typing this. I do *not* use seperate partitions or vnconfig'ed devices; on the other hand, I don't have quota enforecement issues. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message