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

[Lincoln Peters]

On Mon, 2004-08-16 at 15:42, Dustin Mollo wrote:
> 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

It still doesn't work.  Do I also need to create additional nodes in
/dev (I notice there are device nodes named /dev/loop[0-7])?

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Lincoln Peters
<sampln at sbcglobal.net>

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