On Tuesday 28 October 2008 11:14, Adam Thornton wrote:
>Maximum of 8 loop devices.
>
>Easy to fix.
>
>Add options loop max_loop=64 (or up to 255, I think) in /etc/
>modules.conf.
>
>You will need to rmmod and then modprobe loop again, so it may be
>simpler just to reboot.
Or, change max_loop and manually create the new device nodes you need if you
want to avoid a reboot. This little loop will do the trick:
n=8; while [ $n -lt 64 ]; do mknod /dev/loop$n b 7 $n; n=$((n+1)); done
- MacK.
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Edmund R. MacKenty
Software Architect
Rocket Software, Inc.
Newton, MA USA
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