Re: max_loop limit

On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 07:11 -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
On Thu, Mar 22 2007, Eric Dumazet wrote:
Sure, but it's the first Tomas patch :)

On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 02:54:57PM +0100, Jens Axboe wrote:
The more the reason to guide him in the direction of a right solution,
instead of extending the current bad one!

On Thu, Mar 22 2007, Eric Dumazet wrote:
Apparently the 'current crap' didnt caugth someone else attention.

On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 02:54:57PM +0100, Jens Axboe wrote:
I guess most people don't care, 8 is enough for them and the wasted
memory isn't too much to care about - 8 devices and only one used, is
wasting at least ~14kb on my machine here.

Any chance we can get some kind of devices set up for partitions of
loop devices if we're going to redo loopdev setup? That's been a thorn
in my side for some time.

you can already do that with devmapper and partx combo...


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