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To: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] UML - Limit request size on COWed devices
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Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 20:00:13 +0100
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On 13 Jul 2007, Jeff Dike uttered the following:

> COWed devices can't handle more than 32 (64 on x86_64) sectors in one
> request due to the size of the bitmap being carried around in the
> io_thread_req.

This feels like a -stable candidate to me.