RE: [Nolug] Free loop device problem

Everything is unmounted and it's not setting the loop devices free.

-----Original Message-----
From: Tim [mailto:tpk@23rdward.org]
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 12:03 PM
To: nolug@joeykelly.net
Subject: Re: [Nolug] Free loop device problem

It sounds like you ran into the 8 limit ... and automount was the only thing
letting you mount all those images ... just unmount everything, and reload
the loop module with the options someone else suggested here (actually I
wasn't aware it took that argument at load time, I always though you had to
alter loop.c in the kernel source).

----- Original Message -----
From: "Wimprine, Thomas" <twimprine@stei.com>
To: <nolug@joeykelly.net>
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 11:29 AM
Subject: 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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> Ray DeJean http://www.r-a-y.org
> Systems Engineer Southeastern Louisiana University
> IBM Certified Specialist AIX Administration, AIX Support
> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
>
>
> 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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