It's not necessary to edit the Kernel source to
increase the no. of loop devices supported by your
kernel. Just give an argument
max_loop=<no. that u want>
while u boot if u have compiled in. or
insmod <mod_name> max_loop=<no. that u want>
if u have put as a module.
some lines from the kernel ( drivers/block/loop.c )
MODULE_PARM (max_loop, "i");
MODULE_PARM_DESC (max_loop, "Max no. of loop dev
(1-255)" );
This shows that no. of loop devices supported is
dynamic. The default value is 8.
--- Praveen Kumar <praveen@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi all,+----------------------------------------+--------------+
I am planning to increase the maximum number of loop
devices by editing
the kernel source. I need this for mounting Debian
SID ISO images. I
plan to make it to 24 instead of default maximum 8.
I just wanted to know why the default maximum is 8.
Are there any
performance issues if I number of loop devices
exceed 8. Did anybody
increase beyond that and face any problem?
Thanks and Regards,
Praveen.
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