On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 08:16:32PM +0200, Can Burak Cilingir wrote: > hi, > > I need to backup my system (20 gigs) to a smbfs mounted directory. with > all the attributes of an ext3 file system so plain rsync --archive won't > be enough. I decided to create a filesystem image to mount from the > mentioned directory. This time i hit to the filesize limit of the smbfs. > > i decided to create 10 x 2GB files and glue them via raid 0 but this > time, number of loopback devices couldn't handle that :) i have 8 of > them. is it possible to create more? i tried with mknod, but couldn't > succeed. > Hi, yes, there is. The number of loop devices is determined at boot time, and defaults to 8. Just add "max_loop=<n>" (without the brackets) to your boot prompt (or add it to LILO's or GRUB's config). You still have to create the devices manually, though - block device major 7, minor number matching the device name. ;-) HTH, Jan Nordholz -- Jan C. Nordholz <jckn At gmx net>
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