On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 10:40:48PM -0400, Ben Slusky wrote: > 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. Nice to know, I've usually changed it here in loop.c: static int max_loop = 8; static struct loop_device *loop_dev; static int *loop_sizes; static int *loop_blksizes; static devfs_handle_t devfs_handle; /* For the directory */ - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
