Start_udev - more loop devices

[Nalin Dahyabhai]

On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 07:04:33AM -0700, Kenneth Lee wrote:
> I currently have the following statement at the bottom of the
> modprobe.conf file:
> options loop max_loop=64
> 
> Any other ideas?

The configuration file which tells MAKEDEV how to create loop devices
only lists up to 16 devices.  Open /etc/makedev.d/linux-2.6.x, find the
line which reads:
  b $STORAGE               7   0  1  16 loop%d
and change it to:
  b $STORAGE               7   0  1  64 loop%d
and that limitation will be gone.

Many of the parts of the configuration file which set the maximum number
of devices of any type which MAKEDEV can create are just guesses, and
this particular guess was too low.

HTH,

Nalin