From - Tue Feb 15 14:09:22 2000 Return-Path: Received: from lacrosse.corp.redhat.com (root@lacrosse.corp.redhat.com [207.175.42.154]) by devserv.devel.redhat.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA25469; Mon, 14 Feb 2000 01:28:01 -0500 Received: (from mail@localhost) by lacrosse.corp.redhat.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id BAA15510 for rhkernel-list-dist; Mon, 14 Feb 2000 01:28:01 -0500 Received: from redhat.com ([10.0.0.25]) by lacrosse.corp.redhat.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA15505 for ; Mon, 14 Feb 2000 01:28:00 -0500 Sender: dledford@redhat.com Message-ID: <38A75AC0.8E885BA1@redhat.com> Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 20:30:40 -0500 From: Doug Ledford Organization: Red Hat, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.14-1.1.0 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: rhkernel-list@redhat.com Subject: [Fwd: increase # of loop devices?] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-to: rhkernel-list@redhat.com X-loop: rhkernel-list@redhat.com Status: X-Mozilla-Status: 8001 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 X-UIDL: 3859a1f10000f24a This actually makes some sense on our kernels for other reasons (our own ftp sites comes to mind). Anyone know of any problems with this? -------- Original Message -------- From: Matt_Domsch@Dell.com Subject: increase # of loop devices? To: dledford@redhat.com, Mark_Rusk@Dell.com Doug, would you consider increasing the number of loop devices availalble, from 8 to 16? Looks like it's a matter of increasing the value of MAX_LOOP in loop.c, but there may be side-effects I'm not aware of. I routinely mount ISO images via loop, and hit the 8 limit rather quickly. I suspect people running mirror servers do the same thing. Thanks, Matt diff -burN drivers/block/loop.c.orig drivers/block/loop.c --- drivers/block/loop.c.orig Thu Feb 10 13:25:05 2000 +++ drivers/block/loop.c Thu Feb 10 13:25:15 2000 @@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ #define TIMEOUT_VALUE (6 * HZ) #include -#define MAX_LOOP 8 +#define MAX_LOOP 16 static struct loop_device loop_dev[MAX_LOOP]; static int loop_sizes[MAX_LOOP]; static int loop_blksizes[MAX_LOOP];