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From: Terry Kennedy <terry@spcuna.spc.edu>
Subject: Re: BSDI3.0 Disk Striping/Concatenation
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Date: Mon, 3 Mar 1997 00:07:41 GMT
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Kevin L. Gross <klg@westweb.com> writes:
> I installed 3.0 the other day and am trying to "splice" together
> a couple of disk drives. Unfortunately, the "splice" program requires
> 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,
> but no such luck. I run:
>
> # splice -u 0 /dev/sd1c /dev/sd3c
> splice: /dev/splice: No such file or directory
Hmmm. I would have thought the device nodes would ship pre-created. When I
was fiddling with the splice stuff earlier, you had to do a "/dev/MAKEDEV
sp0". That creates both the "sp0" device nodes and the "splice" control de-
vice. That should do it.
Terry Kennedy Operations Manager, Academic Computing
terry@spcvxa.spc.edu St. Peter's College, Jersey City, NJ USA
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