Joseph V Moss wrote:
>
> The switch to using 16bits for the minor number is the clean way to overcome
> this limitation, but since that's quite a ways off, I wrote set of patches
> to increase the limit in the 2.2 kernels.
>
32 bits, actually. It should happen right at the beginning of the 2.5
cycles.
-hpa
> The way it works is to change the non-device from a single major number (0) to
> a list of major numbers used for that purpose. Once this limitation was removed,
> I then ran into another limit. The RPC layer's method of searching for a port
> to use, has a limit of about 800 ports that can be used. After changing that
> algorithm, I got a set of patches that should allow over 7000 mounts (actually
> more, if you're willing to use the major numbers of devices you don't have on
> your system). I've used them to mount 2000 NFS filesystems at once on a few
> of our systems.
>
> I just have to figure out what legal process I have to go through to get
> Intel to allow me to release them.
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