de-modularising for the win!

[Jeremy Katz]

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