On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 19:43 +0100, Frank Gevaerts wrote: > 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. > > try adding max_loop=xx at the boor prompt or when modprobing loop. when i add to the prompt a "modprobe loop" says 8 devices when i use "modprobe loop max_loop=xx" it correctly states "xx devices max" isn't there a way to automatically give this parameter? i edited /etc/modules.conf (vie /etc/modutils of course, followed by modules-update) as "options loop max_loop=64" but it didn't worked. btw thanks > > Frank > > > > > thanks > > -- > > Can Burak Cilingir > > http://canb.net/ > > http://tdk.org.tr/dogruyazalim.html > > icq#10720999 > > > > -- > "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. > Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, > by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan > -- Can Burak Cilingir http://canb.net/ http://tdk.org.tr/dogruyazalim.html icq#10720999
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