On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 21:11 +0100, Jan C. Nordholz 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. > > > 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. ;-) thanks for the help. as i replied in the other mail, modprobe loop max_loop=xx created the devices. > > HTH, > > Jan Nordholz -- Can Burak Cilingir http://canb.net/ http://tdk.org.tr/dogruyazalim.html icq#10720999
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