mount ran out of loop devices
Alexander Dalloz
alexander.dalloz at uni-bielefeld.de
Tue May 4 00:34:10 UTC 2004
Am Di, den 04.05.2004 schrieb Wart um 02:18:
> I'm trying to mount a handful of iso images so that their contents can
> be shared across the network. Fedora Core 1 seems to have a limit of 8
> loop devices that I can use to mount these images. I need 9 ;)
> So how do I access the other loop devices so that I can mount more than
> 8 ISOs?
>
> Wart
$ modinfo loop
filename: /lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2188.nptl/kernel/drivers/block/loop.o
description: <none>
author: <none>
license: "GPL"
parm: max_loop int, description "Maximum number of loop devices
(1-256)"
So load the loop kernel module with parameter max_loop=12 for example to
get maximum 12 loops.
Alexander
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