Re: [Xen-users] How to increase loop device ?

[yassine ayachi <ayachi.yassine@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Claudiu,

Thank you very much, your solution is safe and worked for me just fine,

PS.
I just noticed that the best way to shutdown a domU is to do "xm shutdown" instead of "xm destroy" for the loop devices to be properly unmounted and reused,

thanks to those who responded,
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2011/4/11 Claudiu CurcÄ <alexstrasza2@xxxxxxxxx>

On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Rudi Ahlers <Rudi@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 11:37 AM, Fajar A. Nugraha <list@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 4:29 PM, yassine ayachi
>> <ayachi.yassine@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> you could pass it as an option to your kernel at boot time, if you use grub,
>>> add "max_loop=64" at the end of your kernel line, then reboot the server
>>> and look how much devices are declared in /dev/loop*
>>
>> IIRC it should be loop.max_loop=64 when on kernel line
>>
>>>
>>> As you can see it requires to reboot the server which is not possible since
>>> it is a production server :
>>>
>>> Can someone please give me a proposal to increase loop devices without
>>> rebooting the server ?
>>
>> Not possible.
>>
>> ... alhtough depending on the version of Xen you use, you can try
>> using "tap:aio:/" instead of "file:/" on your domU config file.
>>
>> --
>> Fajar
>>
>> _______________________________________________
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>
>
> Is it not maybe possible to change this value with ksplice, and thus
> not have to reboot?
>
>
>

You could manually create the loop devices. They have major number 7

mknod -m660 /dev/loopX b 7 X && chown root:disk /dev/loopX

Replace X with the numbers that continue your existing loop devices.

For example, if you have /dev/loop0 through /dev/loop7, you could
create /dev/loop8 and so forth by issuing

mknod -m660 /dev/loop8 b 7 8 && chown root:disk /dev/loop8
mknod -m660 /dev/loop9 b 7 9 && chown root:disk /dev/loop9

You might want to script the creation if you plan to create many
additional loop devices via a for loop.

--
Yassine AYACHI
IngÃnieur rÃseaux et systÃmes

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