[NCLUG] More "Loopy" Questions

[Eric Brunson]

To make Sean's fix permanent add a line to /etc/modules.conf like:

options loop max_loop=50



* bmc (brettcrandall at hotmail.com) [020212 10:18]:
> Sean,
> I didn't really give up ( I just can't for some reason) thanks for all your
> help. I was able to figger out on my own how to make loop devices. ( see I
> do read some) and now I have 50 lop devices and the modprobe command worked
> great!
> My last issue is to figure out where and how to make a script to have this
> start up this way all the time as the default is still set to 8 loop
> devices. I suppose I'd need to actually run it before it has a chance to
> mount all the FS so that I don't have to create a script that will umount
> all 50 images. Can you recommend a page with some documentation for this?
> Well I guess I had better state that I don't really know what to search on
> to begin with because I'm not sure where this would be done (rclocal?)
> Thanks again Sean and Matthew.
> Brett
> Ps. I ran across The Hacking Society page. Is this Kernel hacking or just
> general program hacking. I looked for a page that kinda stated what exactly
> you guys do at your meetings and I saw the minutes section but not sure what
> you guys actually do there.
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sean Reifschneider" <jafo-nclug at tummy.com>
> To: <nclug at nclug.org>
> Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 4:55 PM
> Subject: Re: [NCLUG] More "Loopy" Questions
> 
> 
> > On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 03:30:34PM -0700, bmc wrote:
> > >will set the amount of loop devices. I did go through the loop.c file and
> > >change the max to 50 in the 2 cases I found it but alas it didn't make a
> >
> > No need to reboot -- this isn't Winders...  Unmount all your loop devices,
> > remove the module ("rmmod loop"), then re-load it specifying the maximum
> > number of loopback devices you want ("modprobe loop max_loop=50").  You'll
> > have to create the extra device files under /dev, though.
> >
> > Sean
> > --
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> Firestone
> > Sean Reifschneider, Inimitably Superfluous <jafo at tummy.com>
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