Re: [PATCH 2/3] UML - Limit request size on COWed devices

[Nix]

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.
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