Christoph,
> The soft max_sectors limit is normally capped by the hardware limits and > an arbitrary upper limit enforced by the kernel, but can be modified by > the user. A few drivers want to increase this limit (nbd, rbd) or > adjust it up or down based on hardware capabilities (sd). Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.peter...@oracle.com> -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering