From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1 Description of problem: I need to mount more that 8 iso images on a production server so that people on the LAN can use them. The error message is mount: could not find any free loop device dmesg | grep loop loop: loaded (max 8 devices) modinfo loop filename: /lib/modules/2.6.10-1.741_FC3/kernel/drivers/block/loop.ko parm: max_loop:Maximum number of loop devices (1-256) license: GPL alias: block-major-7-* vermagic: 2.6.10-1.741_FC3 686 REGPARM 4KSTACKS gcc-3.4 depends: srcversion: C7DA7AB66C05B09B2C38ECF Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): mount How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Mount more that 8 iso images 2. 3. Actual Results: mount: could not find any free loop device Expected Results: Able to mount iso images Additional info: uname -r 2.6.10-1.741_FC3 If not fixed in fc3 will it be fixed in fc4
Works for me by changing the option of the kernel module to have more loop devices and reloading the kernel module.
Could you please commands you used? TIA
Add 'options loop max_loop=<some number greater than 8>' to /etc/modprobe.conf.