we can hav upto 256 loopback devices in a 2.4.x
kernel.
i.e upto max_loop=255 is allowed.
--- Praveen Kumar <praveen@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Tom Jose Tharayil wrote:
we can keep upto 8 by default.kumar of this list has
If you want more, recompile the kernel and praveen
gone upto 11. But I have had a maximum of only 8.
I think what he asked was about loop back interface
(network) and not
loop devices if I am correct.
Anyways, if it is about loop devices, you can
increase the number of
loop devices by passing 'max_loop=n' where n=desired
number of loop
devices (I have 64 at present) to the kernel command
line in case you
are running a kernel >= 2.4 and you have loop device
support compiled
into the kernel. If you are running a kernel <= 2.2,
you need to
recompile the kernel changing the loop.c file in the
kernel sources.
Also you need to create the devices needed in the
/dev directory with
correct major and minor numbers and apropriate
permissions. I created
/dev/loop8 to /dev/loop63
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