[ale] loop device and /dev/marry

[Christopher Fowler]

For years SCO has offered support for a loop device and it is known
as marry.  I'm just wandering if AIX 3.2.5 has the same support.  I know
linux does.  I want to create some large 500mg files on a linux machine and
mount them via NFS on a RISC/6000 running AIX 3.2.5 then I want to use
a loop device to create a FS on each.  Does ne1 know how to do this?  What
is the largest file I can create on a linux drive?

If you are wandering why would I do this over NFS? It is too expensive to
add SCSI drives to a 34h RS/6000.  Plus, I have 3.5gb of space on a Linux
box.


Thanks,
Christopher Fowler
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