linux-kernel - Re: max

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Date:	Thu, 22 Mar 2007 16:22:40 +0100
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	William Lee Irwin III <wli@...omorphy.com>
Cc:	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>,
	Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>, Tomas M <tomas@...x.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: 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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