[Linux-disciples] Limited number of loop devices

[Stephen R Laniel]

Is it really the case that the number of loop devices is
limited? I find it kinda lame that one has to do

losetup /dev/loop[1-N] file

I just had to write a script that checks the loop devices
sequentially using a hack:

for loopdev in /dev/loop*
do
	losetup $loopdev $REGFILE 2>/dev/null && break
done

This shouldn't be necessary. Am I missing something?

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