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From: Jan Kasprzak <kas@informatics.muni.cz>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: drivers/block/loop.c:max_loop
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 20:00:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010416200012.H6934@informatics.muni.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010416173942.G6934@informatics.muni.cz> <20010416183637.G9539@suse.de>
In-Reply-To: <20010416183637.G9539@suse.de>; from axboe@suse.de on Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 06:36:37PM +0200

Jens Axboe wrote:
: On Mon, Apr 16 2001, Jan Kasprzak wrote:
: > 	Hello,
: > 
: > 	I run a relatively large FTP server, and I've just reached
: > the max_loop limit of loop devices here (I use loopback mount of ISO 9660
: > images of Linux distros here). Is there any reason for keeping
: > the max_loop variable in loop.c set to 8?
: 
: Memory requirements -- nothing prevents you from loading it with a
: bigger max count though...
: 
	I would suggest to make the limit configurable by /proc or
ioctl() in run-time. Or even better, to make all allocations on
first /dev/loopN open. Should I try to implement something like that?

-Yenya

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  reply	other threads:[~2001-04-16 18:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-04-16 15:39 drivers/block/loop.c:max_loop Jan Kasprzak
2001-04-16 16:36 ` drivers/block/loop.c:max_loop Jens Axboe
2001-04-16 18:00   ` Jan Kasprzak [this message]
2001-04-16 18:44     ` drivers/block/loop.c:max_loop Jens Axboe
2001-04-16 18:50       ` drivers/block/loop.c:max_loop Jens Axboe

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