From: Dazed_75 <
lthielster@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.
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