Re: drivers/block/loop.c:max_loop

Jens Axboe (axboe@suse.de)
Mon, 16 Apr 2001 18:36:37 +0200


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...

-- 
Jens Axboe

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