Bug 106263

Summary: Only 8 loop devices - and don't get released automatically
Product: [openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0 Reporter: Alexey Eremenko <al4321>
Component: KernelAssignee: Hubert Mantel <mantel>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Enhancement    
Priority: P5 - None    
Version: Beta 1   
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Description Alexey Eremenko 2005-08-22 19:34:48 UTC 
Because I mount a lot of CD's, there is a bug waste of loop devices.   
   
After I mount an iso with "-o loop" option to /mnt/vcdrom for example,  
then mount a second, third, and 8th CD-ROM.   
I suddely have no more loop devices.  
  
Currently there are only 8 loop devices allowed simultaneously, what's worse,  
after I mount the second CD-ROM on the same directory as the first one - the  
first loop devices doesn't get unmounted automatically.  
  
So please:  
1) make sure the old CD Isos are unmounted automatically, if on their place a  
newer ISO is mounted  
2) extend loop devices to 128 maximum.   
3) It would be good to include "ISO Mount" software in the OS.  
It's a KDE add-on which allows mount ISOs from Konqueror. (right clicking the  
ISO)
Comment 1 Christoph Thiel 2005-08-23 10:35:09 UTC 
ad 1) That something that you should really do with a little shell script, if  
you really need it. This is nothing that should be done automaticly by the  
kernel.  
  
ad 2) You can bump up the max number of loop devices on boot with the option:  
    
  max_loop=128  
  
  [Maximum number of loop devices (1-256)]  
  
ad 3) Please file an extra bugreport / enhancement request for that.