[NBLUG/talk] How to mount more than 8 loopback filesystems?

[Dustin Mollo]

On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 03:36:35PM -0700, Lincoln Peters wrote:
> Is there a way to mount more than 8 loopback filesystems  I'm trying to
> loopback-mount images of all 13 Debian/testing CD's, but I get an error
> if I try to mount more than 8 of them.

if you load the loop kernel module as a module, then you can do something
like this in your modules.conf:

# increase maximum number of loop devices to 32
options loop max_loop=32

similar results can be had by passing appropriate params when you boot your
kernel if the loop device is statically compiled.

-dustin