[TriLUG] /dev/loop*

[Chris Hedemark]

Howdy,

I am mounting .iso filesystems as loopback file systems.  So far I have up to 
/dev/loop7 mounted and all went well with them.  When I tried to mount to 
/dev/loop8, I got the error message "mount: could not find any free loop 
device".  However /dev/loop8 through /dev/loop15 available (and even mknod'ed 
a /dev/loop16 just for the heck of it) and I still get the same error.  This 
is a fairly stock Red Hat 7.2 host.  The whole point is I am trying to share 
the ISO images for the IT staff at a client site to be able to get at for 
burning support CD's, and at the same time actually nfs/smb export the 
contents of each ISO as a read only filesystem of its own for network access 
purposes.

Has anyone else here run into this problem?