[NCLUG] More "Loopy" Questions

Matthew Wilcox willy at debian.org
Mon Feb 11 14:15:38 MST 2002


On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 02:08:33PM -0700, Sean Reifschneider wrote:
> I'm sure, with some ammount of effort, that you can increase the number of
> loopback devices available.  Check the loop.c file for anything that
> obviously needs to be changed from "8" to "50"...

static int max_loop = 8;
/*
 * And now the modules code and kernel interface.
 */
MODULE_PARM(max_loop, "i");
MODULE_PARM_DESC(max_loop, "Maximum number of loop devices (1-255)");
MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");

so hey, it's even documented :-)

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