Re: loopback device
great! that rocks! thanks :))
nate
On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, David Hamilton wrote:
dhamil >I'm currently running 21 loopback devices on my server and having no
dhamil >differences in performance. Of course loopback devices are slower than
dhamil >a standard share, but keeping ISO's does have its advantages. All I
dhamil >needed to do to increase the max of 8 is to modify the MAX_LOOP in
dhamil >loop.c within the kernel source, recompile the kernel, and insmod the
dhamil >new loop devices in /dev.
dhamil >
dhamil >aphro wrote:
dhamil >>
dhamil >> I am in the process of setting up a samba file server for my dept, and am
dhamil >> mounting quite a few ISO images via loopback just to have the ISO
dhamil >> available to burn if needed and at the same time have all the files
dhamil >> there. I see there are 8 loopback devices i was wondering if there was
dhamil >> any complications that anyone has encountered with having all 8 (or
dhamil >> perhaps more?) in use, they won't be very active but i've never worked
dhamil >> with the loopback device till today, so im not sure what to
dhamil >> expect. Running kernel 2.2.10 debian slink
dhamil >>
dhamil >> thanks!
dhamil >>
dhamil >> nate
dhamil >>
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