256 loop devices limit

Khem Raj raj.khem at gmail.com
Sun Jan 22 19:04:19 UTC 2012


On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 5:23 AM, tom jok <tomjokiel at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Long story short:
> Busybox compiled against glibc does not have 256 loop devices limit.
> Confirmed with this message:
> http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2010-April/072128.html
> Busybox compiled against uClibc is somehow still limited to 256 loops. You
> can create more with mknod but you wont be able to use them.
>
> Am i doing something wrong or it's rather an uClibc limitation?
> Any chance to raise this number in the upcoming uClibc 0.9.33 release?
>

Do you have FEATURE_MOUNT_LOOP_CREATE set in busybox .config

> Regards,
> Tomasz Jokiel
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