From d942c99d8cd13ee627b2e0ea04f7398240fbdfd5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pascal Rigaux <pixel@mandriva.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 11:29:22 +0000
Subject: increase the number of loopbacks (needed for mandrakemove where the
 default (8) is much too low :)

---
 mdk-stage1/lomount.c    | 8 ++++----
 perl-install/devices.pm | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mdk-stage1/lomount.c b/mdk-stage1/lomount.c
index 6b465758a..37b1373d3 100644
--- a/mdk-stage1/lomount.c
+++ b/mdk-stage1/lomount.c
@@ -119,12 +119,12 @@ set_loop (const char *device, const char *file, int gz)
 
 char* find_free_loop()
 {
-        char ldev[] = "/dev/loop0";
 	struct loop_info loopinfo;
         int i;
-        for (i=0; i<8; i++) {
+        for (i=0; i<256; i++) {
                 int fd;
-                ldev[strlen(ldev)-1] = '0' + i;
+		char ldev[100];
+		sprintf(ldev, "/dev/loop%d", i);
                 ensure_dev_exists(ldev);
                 fd = open(ldev, O_RDONLY);
                 if (!ioctl(fd, LOOP_GET_STATUS, &loopinfo)) {
@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ lomount(char *loopfile, char *where, char **dev, int gz)
 	flag = MS_MGC_VAL;
 	flag |= MS_RDONLY;
 
-	my_insmod("loop", ANY_DRIVER_TYPE, NULL, 1);
+	my_insmod("loop", ANY_DRIVER_TYPE, "max_loop=256", 1);
 
         if (!(loopdev = find_free_loop())) {
 		log_message("could not find a free loop");
diff --git a/perl-install/devices.pm b/perl-install/devices.pm
index 434397a61..8a3654566 100644
--- a/perl-install/devices.pm
+++ b/perl-install/devices.pm
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ sub del_loop {
     run_program::run("losetup", "-d", $dev);
 }
 sub find_free_loop() {
-    foreach (0..7) {
+    foreach (0..255) {
 	my $dev = make("loop$_");
 	sysopen(my $F, $dev, 2) or next;
 	!ioctl($F, c::LOOP_GET_STATUS(), my $_tmp) && $! == 6 or next; #- 6 == ENXIO
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