From: Dazed_75 <lthiels...@gmail.com> [loopback mounting of ISOs] > And since there could be many such .iso's to mount are there any > limits on the number of mounts, or mounted files, or .... One might > need to mount on demand to reduce some resource usage. There is so > much to learn I could almost wish I was 20 again. --- Nah, bad idea!
Usually, there are 8 loop devices. If you need more, you can manually mknod them and use more, up to... 4096? Something like that. /dev/loop0 is block, major 7, minor 0, and the others follow the same pattern. Or if you "modprobe loop max_loop=N", then you can have an upper limit of N loop devices. Usually, people don't need more than a couple of loop devices at once. If you need more, it's relatively easy to get them running. -- Matt G / Dances With Crows The Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress/ There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
