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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Jan Kasprzak <kas@informatics.muni.cz>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: drivers/block/loop.c:max_loop
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 18:36:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010416183637.G9539@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010416173942.G6934@informatics.muni.cz>
In-Reply-To: <20010416173942.G6934@informatics.muni.cz>; from kas@informatics.muni.cz on Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 05:39:42PM +0200

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...

-- 
Jens Axboe


  reply	other threads:[~2001-04-16 16:37 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 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2001-04-16 18:00   ` drivers/block/loop.c:max_loop Jan Kasprzak
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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