On Sun, 19 Feb 2006 22:01:52 +0100, markus reichelt <ml@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Is it trivial to use, say 20 (or more), loop-devices at the same time? Yes. No problems. Gabriel already explained how. >> Would this need a significant amount of memory/CPU/other resources? > Setting them all up, no. Using them all at once will certainly > stress your sytem. OTOH, that\'s also true for other block devices. I used to run a mirror server for linux and FOSS based content. I had over 200 ISO\'s mounted simultaneously on a system with 2x450MHz PII\'s, 512 MB RAM and 40x18GB disks. This was shared out over http, ftp, nfs and rsync. I had no performance problems at all with this setup and ISO\'s loopback mounted. BTW. This was over a (semi)dedicated 100Mb connection. >> ps. Is this the right place to ask about losetup (included in >> loop-aes-utils) when I\'m using it without encryption? Not sure, but this list is more-so encryption-sentric. While I couldn\'t say that this is the wrong list as such, I would suggest that you seek out a LUG (Linux users group) near you. They will tend to be very good at these type of questions. -- Best Regards, Tor Bendiksen - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
