[Fedora-livecd-list] [PATCH] Enable live-mounting of LiveOS device together with an active overlay

James Heather j.heather at surrey.ac.uk
Thu Mar 31 07:25:59 UTC 2011


>     The script requires 3 to 4 free loop devices, so is not yet
> suitable for use
>     within a booted LiveOS image.


Is that really an issue? These days you can mknod as many loop devices
as you like:


        for ((i=0;i<128;i++))
        do
            [ -e /dev/loop$i ] || mknod -m 0600 /dev/loop$i b 7 $i
        done


James

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