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From: mark@troma.rv.tis.com (Mark Sienkiewicz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: BSDI3.0 Disk Striping/Concatenation
Date: 3 Mar 1997 17:25:22 -0500
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In article <3319D7CF.41C67EA6@westweb.com>,
Kevin L. Gross <klg@westweb.com> wrote:
>a /dev/splice file which does not exist. I assumed by adding the
>
>pseudo-device sp 10 
>
>line into the kernel configuration/rebuild this file would get built,

This causes there to be a driver for it in the kernel.  It does
not actually create any files.

>but no such luck. I run:
>
># splice -u 0 /dev/sd1c /dev/sd3c
>splice: /dev/splice: No such file or directory
>
>Anybody know how to create a /dev/splice file? I assume one needs to
>run "mknod" and then "MAKEDEV" but I know not the correct major number
>nor any of the other args.

cd /dev
./MAKEDEV splice0 splice1 splice2 ...

repeat for as many splice devices as you will be using.