Hi, all. I've been having trouble on a system which uses autofs as one of
its main services. There are times when we have over 150 shell users on one
machine, and given the number of people lookign or using binaries in other
people's home directories, I am running into a real problem. That is the
8-bit limit to the number of simultaneously mounted nfs (actually
non-local-block-device) file systems.
I've traced the problem down in the kernel source, and it seems mainly to be
due to the need to allocate a fresh minor number under NODEV_MAJOR for
each nfs mount. Now, the question: does anyone know of a workaround/patch?
I've considered hijacking another major number, but that doesn't really solve
the problem completely, and it just screams klduge.
I realize this isn't precisely on topic here, but I'm hoping someone
else has faced this problem.
Thanks in advance,
Gene
