How can I have more loopback devices?

[sunny at laymusic.org (Laura Conrad)]

>>>>> "Sarah" == Sarah McGlinchey <sarahwithanx at gmail.com> writes:

    Sarah> Take a look at:
    Sarah> modinfo loop

    Sarah> You should see something like this:
    Sarah> parm:           max_loop:Maximum number of loop devices (1-256) (int)

    Sarah> You can set something higher in modules.conf or add it to the kernel
    Sarah> command line if your loopback support is built into the kernel.  You
    Sarah> will either have to reboot or reload the module.

Thanks, that was helpful.  My actual answer (not yet tested with a
reboot) was to "rmmod loop", edit /etc/modprobe.d/options to contain a
line that says:

options loop max_loop=16

and then do "modprobe loop".  Now my script mounts all 11 .iso files.

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