RE: [Nolug] Free loop device problem

I have ~20 CDs that it's serving and I don't want to keep them all loaded
all the time, so I'm using the automount to handle it. Also I add/remove
cd's failrly regularly so it's real easy to make the new image and recreate
the link that mounts it. The lsmod reports:
Module Size Used by Not tainted
nls_iso8859-1 3516 0 (autoclean)
loop 12888 8 (autoclean)
autofs 13700 1 (autoclean)

ps -A | grep loop
16245 ? 00:00:00 loop1
19962 ? 00:00:00 loop2
20719 ? 00:00:00 loop3
20974 ? 00:00:00 loop4
21623 ? 00:00:00 loop5
22342 ? 00:00:00 loop6
22491 ? 00:00:00 loop7
23421 ? 00:00:00 loop0

I've tried to kill -9 and they won't die also if I rmmod loop it says it's
busy and can't unload.

-----Original Message-----
From: -ray [mailto:ray@ops.selu.edu]
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 10:45 AM
To: 'nolug@joeykelly.net'
Subject: Re: [Nolug] Free loop device problem

do an lsmod and make sure the loop module is still loaded. if not, insmod
loop. also how many isos are you mounting? i think 16 is sometimes the
default... add to /etc/modules.conf

options loop max_loop=32

or whatever max you want. you can also reload the module and specify
max_loop if you don't want to reboot.

automount is gas...is it really needed?

-ray

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IBM Certified Specialist  	      AIX Administration, AIX Support
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On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Wimprine, Thomas wrote:
> I'm using my RH 8.0 system as a CDrom server. It's been working great for
> the past few months and as a matter of fact management has been impressed
> that I haven't needed to reboot the system for awhile. However now it's
not
> working and I'm getting the following errors. Does anyone have any ideas?
> Since the system being available and working w/o a reboot for so long I
> would like to avoid it if possible.
> 
> Error: /var/log/messages
> Mar 10 10:07:19 lajeffelx01 automount[26381]: mount(generic): failed to
> mount /usr/local/isoimages/NT4sp6a.iso (type iso9660) on
> /mnt/isosrv_auto/NT4sp6a
> Mar 10 10:07:21 lajeffelx01 automount[26346]: attempting to mount entry
> /mnt/isosrv_auto/NT4sp6a
> Mar 10 10:07:21 lajeffelx01 automount[26383]: >> mount: could not find any
> free loop device
> 
> Thanks
> Thomas
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