On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 19:57 -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 07:49:33PM -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 19:47 -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 07:42:15PM -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 12:13 -0700, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > > > See various and sundry plumber's conf discussions.
> > >
> > > If we build in the loop module, we need to bump the default of number
of
> > > loopdevs[1] to keep things happier for live images. Right now, we just
> > > set maxloop in modprobe.conf
> >
> > does it not appear configurable in sysfs someplace?
>
> Unless something has changed from when I looked last, no. The devices
> are statically allocated on module(/built-in) load and that's as many as
> you get.
how many do you typically need btw?
Been bumping to 16 on live images as the compromise between "we're using
a bunch just to get things working at all" vs "not using more is just
sucking up memory"
Jeremy