From: devzero@web.de
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] remove artificial software max_loop limit
Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2007 11:16:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1713525762@web.de> (raw)
>Remove artificial maximum 256 loop device that can be created due to a
>legacy device number limit. Searching through lkml archive, there are
>several instances where users complained about the artificial limit
>that the loop driver impose. There is no reason to have such limit.
Hey, i was one of those :)
Nice to see, that it`s solved now, thanks very much!
I never expected this to happen and put all my hope into dm-loop instead.
Did you mind that Bryn m. Reeves from redhat will suffer a serious depression now? ( -> http://sources.redhat.com/lvm2/wiki/DMLoop ) ;)
regards
roland
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2007-04-01 9:16 devzero [this message]
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2007-04-01 18:54 [patch] remove artificial software max_loop limit devzero
2007-04-01 18:36 devzero
2007-04-01 18:43 ` Kyle Moffett
2007-04-01 10:53 devzero
2007-04-01 18:03 ` Ken Chen
2007-04-01 19:00 ` Jeff Dike
2007-03-30 7:53 Ken Chen
2007-03-30 8:48 ` Ken Chen
2007-03-30 9:07 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-03-30 9:25 ` Ken Chen
2007-03-30 16:16 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-03-30 21:15 ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-30 22:06 ` Ken Chen
2007-03-30 22:50 ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-31 17:07 ` Greg KH
2007-03-31 17:41 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-01 4:16 ` Ken Chen
2007-04-04 10:31 ` Tomas M
2007-04-04 18:47 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-01 16:53 ` Tomas M
2007-04-01 16:57 ` Tomas M
2007-04-01 18:10 ` Ken Chen
2007-04-01 19:06 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-06 20:33 ` Bill Davidsen
2007-04-07 16:18 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-04-07 16:34 ` Bill Davidsen
2007-03-30 21:46 ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-30 21:52 ` Jan Engelhardt
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