-----Original Message----- From: Ian Kent [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 8:09 PM To: Mike Waychison Cc: Ogden, Aaron A.; autofs mailing list; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [autofs] multiple servers per automount
>> The maximum number of plain pseudo-block device filesystems on a given >> filesystem is limitted to 256. (This includes proc, autofs, nfs..). >> >> This is because pseudo-block filesystems all use major 0, and each have >> a different minor (thus the 256 limit). >> >> There are however patches floating around (look at SuSe's kernels, I'm >> not sure about RH) that allow n majors to be used (default 5). This >> gives you 1280 mounts, a big step up :) >> > > But as Aaron and I know things go pear shaped at just shy of 800 mounts > with RedHat kernels. They have the more-unnamed patch. > > So this would indicate that even if there is a device system that can > increase the number of unnamed devices that subsystems like NFS cannot > handle this many mounts. Maybe. I'm not 100% certain though. Currently I am holding steady at 710 active mounts, I am going to write a little script to mount more in small increments, ie. read a list of ~1000 mountpoints from /home, mount a few of them, check the filesystems, and repeat... this way I will know exactly where things break down. _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
