From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932280AbXDAJQR (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Apr 2007 05:16:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932281AbXDAJQR (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Apr 2007 05:16:17 -0400 Received: from fmmailgate05.web.de ([217.72.192.243]:46017 "EHLO fmmailgate05.web.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932280AbXDAJQQ (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Apr 2007 05:16:16 -0400 Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2007 11:16:14 +0200 Message-Id: <1713525762@web.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 From: devzero@web.de To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch] remove artificial software max_loop limit Organization: http://freemail.web.de/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >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 _______________________________________________________________ SMS schreiben mit WEB.DE FreeMail - einfach, schnell und kostenguenstig. Jetzt gleich testen! http://f.web.de/?mc=021192