Jeremy recently committed a patch which changed the number of loop
devices created from 128 to 16. I don't know if there was some
measurable performance reason for this or not. I had always guessed
that the reason David chose such a large number originally was because
of the fact that unlike in
On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 05:31 -0500, Douglas McClendon wrote:
Jeremy recently committed a patch which changed the number of loop
devices created from 128 to 16. I don't know if there was some
measurable performance reason for this or not.
There's some impact with udev startup. And Harald
