On Wed, 05 Jun 2002 15:03:57 +0100, Dale Amon wrote: > On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 11:12:20AM +0100, 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? > > greg > > I believe there is a compile time constant in loop.c that controls > this. Actually it's a kernel parameter: max_loop. I boot with max_loop=16. -- Ben Slusky | "The pyramid is opening!" sluskyb@stwing.org | "Which one?" sluskyb@paranoiacs.org | "The one with the ever-widening PGP keyID ADA44B3B | hole in it!" -Firesign Theatre - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/