running out of loop devices

[Yang Xiao]

On 5/11/05, Yang Xiao <yxiao2004 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/11/05, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 15:52 -0400, Yang Xiao wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > I've ran out of loop devices, I have read that I need to load the loop
> > > module with max_loop=#, but how ?
> >
> > I would think that you needed to put:
> >
> > options loop max_loop=#
> >
> > in /etc/modprobe.conf
> >
> > Paul.
> > --
> > Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>
> 
> Is there a way to do it without having to reboot?
> 
> Yang
> 
I got it,
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.10-1.770_FC2/kernel/drivers/block/loop.ko max_loop=12

many thanks,

Yang