Changed makeloops to app.bin

João Henriques — Sat, 16 May 2009 01:30:44 +0000

I changed it to an app.bin and you may place it with the other apps you have (:

The script loads the needed files to /tmp/extraloops, runs the files and then unloads the extraloops.app.bin image to free the slot..

Now you can have as many apps you want, or start developing yours, now that there is many free slots

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Make more loop devices in WDTV

João Henriques — Thu, 14 May 2009 13:24:56 +0000

The number of applications for the WDTV is growing with time and everyone is limited to use only 6/7 diferent apps. This happens because linux needs to mount every single application to make it usefull for the system. When this is done, the file occupies one slot of the 8 available. The WDTV has only 6 slots available, and quotiong zorander:

Actually the limit would be 6… one is for /mnt/root.bin and one is used when you play .iso file

So, with the help of b-rad I compiled a modified loop module to make possible the use of a maximum of 253 different applications.

This will be included in next release of webserver.app.bin, but if you can’t wait for it then you may donwload the module and the application I wrote to create the loops in /dev, here. I’m assuming that you now what to do with this files: insmod /path_to_module/discoloop.ko, chmod +x makeloops, then do makeloops --help to now how makeloops works. You need to make this files called at boot time in some init.d script (must be called before crazymount starts his job).

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