On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 04:45:05PM +0200, guy keren wrote:
> 
> before i attempt to mount redhat 8.0's ISOs with 'loopback' on iglu, i 
> want to make sure i'm not causing us to run out of 'loop' device files.
> 
> ilya - how many such devices do we have total? And how do i check how many 
> are currently in use?

/usr/src/linux/drivers/block/loop.c:
#define MAX_LOOP 32

for foo in /dev/loop*; do losetup $foo; done

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/usr/local/bin/union has the latest version of my union script. After
you create separate mountpoints for each 8.0 ISO, use something like:

union iso/i386/foo-8.0-disc1 iso/i386/foo-8.0-disc2 ... os/i386

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