On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 02:50:27PM +0800, animesh bansriyar wrote:
> Thanks for this....Actually the way i used to mount more than 8 loop devices
> is by changing the max_loop value inside the kernel source and then
> recompiling

Note that the dev RPM redhat ships has only 16 loop devices. So you will need
to create any additional ones that you require.

Eg (for 32 loop devices):

for i in $( seq 0 31); do
    mknod /dev/loop$i b 7 $i
done

You can have upto 255 loop devices, I believe.

Binand

-- 
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while :; do kill $RANDOM &> /dev/null && break || sleep 1; done


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