Subject: Re: How can I get more fss devices?
To: Louis Guillaume <lguillaume@berklee.edu>
From: Juergen Hannken-Illjes <hannken@eis.cs.tu-bs.de>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 07/07/2007 18:12:51
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)