On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 12:00:52PM -0400, Louis Guillaume wrote:
> I'm trying to get all my backups to use fss snapshots. To do this I
> would like to associate each file system to be backed up with a specific
> fss device. But there are only four. If I MAKEDEV a new one or two
> fssconfig -l tells me this...
> 
> # fssconfig -vl
> fss0: not in use
> fss1: not in use
> fss2: not in use
> fss3: not in use
> fssconfig: open: fss4: Operation not supported by device
> 
> How can I bump up the maximum number of working fss devices?

Locate your kernel config and replace the line

	pseudo-device fss 4

with

	pseudo-device fss #

where # is the number of devices.  Config, build and install the new kernel.

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Juergen Hannken-Illjes - hannken@eis.cs.tu-bs.de - TU Braunschweig (Germany)