Re: Using many (say 20) active loop-devices?

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markus reichelt wrote:
> * Markus Laire <malaire@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Is it trivial to use, say 20 (or more), loop-devices at the same time?
> 
> 
> AFAIK, there's _somewhere_ a variable/constant/definition which can
> be set to the # of loop-devices you need. Someone more tuned to the
> code may help out here, old age got me on that one...

loop.c-2.x.patched has the line:

static int max_loop = 8;

change this to get more loop-devices.

Remember to create the devides in /dev as well.
Have a look at MAKEDEV there.


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