On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 11:36:43AM -0500, Morong, Gerry wrote:
>
> Red Hat 6.1 - 7.0 appear to have a 256 nfs/local mount limit. Is there a
> tunable parameter to increase this? My Solaris 2.6 box will mount all 571
> possible mounts we have here at the same time.
No, there's no way to increase this limit. It is an artifact of how
the VFS deals with non-device mounts like NFS and autofs. It allocates
each of them a minor from the non-device (major 0), so there's a maximum
of 256 nodev filesystem mounts. There's no easily implemented solution
to this; the most likely solution will result from the increase in the
size of dev_t in the 2.5 timeframe.
There should be no limit to the total number of locally mounted
filesystems.
J
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