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From: Jan Kasprzak <kas@informatics.muni.cz>
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 20:00:12 +0200
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: drivers/block/loop.c:max_loop
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Jens Axboe wrote:
: 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...
: 
	I would suggest to make the limit configurable by /proc or
ioctl() in run-time. Or even better, to make all allocations on
first /dev/loopN open. Should I try to implement something like that?

-Yenya

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