hmmm, works on my 9.0 system. I've got 8 loop devices by default. At work, we have a bunch of ISO's of software everyone needs. Instead of keeping a library of CDs and letting them walk away, we just image a new CD and mount it. Well, Windows has a limit of 23 usable drive letters and I know of no way to mount an ISO to a directory like in Linux... Anyway, I've now got a Linux box running Samba with 64 available loop devices. It's just a matter of 'insmod loop' and setting a parameter in modules.conf to increase the limit of how many loop devices can be mounted at one time. You may also have to create the other /dev/loop devices.
Barry On Tuesday 08 October 2002 09:47 pm, Lorne wrote: > Is this an oversite or has someone made an executive decision to remove the > ability to do a mount -l loop from the kernel? I'll admit I've had an > occasion to need it until yesterday, but guess what? 9.0 on my box does NOT > have /dev/loop? of any sort. If I understand correctly, this means I have > to recompile the kernel. It is about as fast to install Redhat on a box as > it is to recompile the kernel. It isn't that big of a deal, but if older > versions have it, why doesn't 9.0? Anybody know?
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