Juergen Hannken-Illjes wrote:
> 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.
> 

Thanks. I was hoping for a run-time way of doing it (like a sysctl or
something) but this will do.

Louis