[NCLUG] More "Loopy" Questions

[bmc]

Thanks so much! I was putting it in rclocal and it was working but now I can
see if I can add those mounts permanently instead of calling them from
rclocal as I have been.
Brett
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric Brunson" <brunson at level3.net>
To: <nclug at nclug.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 9:44 AM
Subject: Re: [NCLUG] More "Loopy" Questions


>
> 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
> > > --
> > >  A computer scientist is someone who, when told to "Go to Hell," sees
the
> > >  "go to," rather than the destination, as harmful. -- Dr. Roger M.
> > Firestone
> > > Sean Reifschneider, Inimitably Superfluous <jafo at tummy.com>
> > > tummy.com - Linux Consulting since 1995. Qmail, KRUD, Firewalls,
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