Re: increasing the number of loop devices

[Ben Slusky <sluskyb@paranoiacs.org>]

On Wed, 05 Jun 2002 15:03:57 +0100, Dale Amon wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 11:12:20AM +0100, Newsmail wrote:
> > I read in dmesg that the maximum amount of loop devices is 8 actually. is 
> > there a way to have more than 8 loop devices? can I add them to /dev or do 
> > I have to modify something else?
> > greg
> 
> I believe there is a compile time constant in loop.c that controls 
> this.

Actually it's a kernel parameter: max_loop. I boot with max_loop=16.

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