Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 30 Mar 2007 15:06:03 -0700 | From | "Ken Chen" <> | Subject | Re: [patch] remove artificial software max_loop limit |
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On 3/30/07, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > So.. this change will cause a fatal error for anyone who is presently > using max_loop, won't it? If they're doing that within their > initramfs/initrd/etc then things could get rather ugly for them.
probably, if they access loop device non-sequentially.
> I don't know how much of a problem this will be in practice - do people use > max_loop much?
I don't know either.
> btw, did you test this change as both a module and as linked-into-vmlinux?
as linked-into-vmlinux. why do you ask? It breaks if it is module? I made last minute change to a mutex name and shamely posted without doing a compile test. Besides that, is there something else breaks?
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