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Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 07:11:46 -0700
From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Subject: Re: max_loop limit
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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.


-- wli