Answer by Anon for Maximum amount of hard drives in 64-bit Linux?
The RHEL technology capabilities and limits page suggests at least 10000 with a recent enough kernel (see the 'Maximum number of device paths ("sd" devices)' row). This amount is greater than that...
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There is, in fact, a limit on the number of drives exposed by Linux's abstract SCSI subsystem, which includes SATA and USB drives. This is because device files are marked by major/minor device number...
View ArticleAnswer by Renan for Maximum amount of hard drives in 64-bit Linux?
From this LinuxQuestions post: Linux does not put arbitrary limits on the number of hard disks. Also, from this post in the Debian mailing list: That's easy. After /dev/sdz comes /dev/sdaa. And, I've...
View ArticleMaximum amount of hard drives in 64-bit Linux?
Is there a maximum amount of hard drives that one can connect to a 64-bit linux machine? I'm not concerned with practicality, as my situation involves a VM.
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