[DRBD-user] Limit for number of /dev/drbdXXX devices

root damian.pietras at open-e.com
Mon Feb 6 15:32:02 CET 2006

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Hi,

What is the limit for number of DRBD devices? I've tried this:

modprobe drbd minor_count=255

And I get:

drbd: ran out of memory

It seems that the maximum number for minor_count is 106 or about 95 on another 
machine, can it be fixed?

I've tested it on 2.6.15.2 and 2.6.12.



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