On Wed, 2002-06-05 at 12:12, Newsmail wrote: > I read in dmesg that the maximum amount of loop devices is 8 actually. is > there a way to have more than 8 loop devices? can I add them to /dev or do > I have to modify something else? you'll have to pass an option to the loop driver; e.g. for stock loop driver as module insmod max_loop=16 loop.o in case you wanted 16 loop devices; (the actual maximum you can specify is 256 loop devices -- although there was some off-by-1 error some time ago, by which the maximum allowed was only 255 iirc) then you might eventually need to create additional /dev/loop inodes -- unless you happen to use devfs; MAKEDEV(8) might be of help regards, -- Herbert Valerio Riedel / Phone: (EUROPE) +43-1-58801-18840 Email: hvr@hvrlab.org / Finger hvr@gnu.org for GnuPG Public Key GnuPG Key Fingerprint: 7BB9 2D6C D485 CE64 4748 5F65 4981 E064 883F 4142
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