[dm-devel] Re: bug in dm-loop? - was:Re: Re: device mapper integrated loops - and one more year !

[roland]

> The current development version allocates these structures piecemeal, so
> there isn't a single large allocation, rather many small allocations -
> this will make problems like this go away (unless you really are out of
> memory!).
ok, i`ll wait for this.

> You're particularly likely to see these problems with large images such
> as DVD ISOs, as the number of entries in the lookup table is
> proportional to the size of the image and the degree of fragmentation of
> the filesystem on which it is stored.
uuuhhhhh - mhhhh - this sounds bad, since the testfiles i created were all 
sized 100k each.
i think i need to attach a big disk and create some more big files to test 
with....

> Thanks again for testing!
you`re welcome!

thanks for making dm-loop!
:)

roland