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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