great! that rocks! thanks :)) nate
On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, David Hamilton wrote: dhamil >I'm currently running 21 loopback devices on my server and having no dhamil >differences in performance. Of course loopback devices are slower than dhamil >a standard share, but keeping ISO's does have its advantages. All I dhamil >needed to do to increase the max of 8 is to modify the MAX_LOOP in dhamil >loop.c within the kernel source, recompile the kernel, and insmod the dhamil >new loop devices in /dev. dhamil > dhamil >aphro wrote: dhamil >> dhamil >> I am in the process of setting up a samba file server for my dept, and am dhamil >> mounting quite a few ISO images via loopback just to have the ISO dhamil >> available to burn if needed and at the same time have all the files dhamil >> there. I see there are 8 loopback devices i was wondering if there was dhamil >> any complications that anyone has encountered with having all 8 (or dhamil >> perhaps more?) in use, they won't be very active but i've never worked dhamil >> with the loopback device till today, so im not sure what to dhamil >> expect. Running kernel 2.2.10 debian slink dhamil >> dhamil >> thanks! dhamil >> dhamil >> nate dhamil >> dhamil >> ----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- dhamil >> Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ dhamil >> Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ dhamil >> Everett, WA 425-348-7336 http://www.linuxpowered.net/ dhamil >> Powered By: http://comedy.aphroland.org/ dhamil >> Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMP http://yahoo.aphroland.org/ dhamil >> -----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- dhamil >> 10:32am up 147 days, 22:33, 1 user, load average: 0.34, 0.34, 0.29 dhamil >> dhamil >> -- dhamil >> Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null dhamil > dhamil >-- dhamil >David Hamilton dhamil >Service Manager dhamil >Business Computer Services dhamil >Business Administration dhamil > and Economics dhamil >(505) 646-5353 dhamil > ----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336 http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By: http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMP http://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 12:39pm up 148 days, 40 min, 1 user, load average: 0.30, 0.39, 0.35
