Hi Aaron, Long time no hear.
Good to hear from you. On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, Ogden, Aaron A. wrote: > > Hello all, > I was reading through Joe Pranevich's "Wonderful World of Linux 2.6" and > I came across this, I thought you might find it interesting. (source: > http://kniggit.net/wwol26.html) The "Network Filesystems" section makes > for interesting reading as well. If I am reading this correctly, the > 'unnamed device' limit has been raised from 256 to 4096 in kernel 2.6, > can anyone confirm this? If this is the case the only barrier left to > remove is the RPC port limitation of ~800 open ports. If the > connections were multiplexed such that all connections to a given server > used the same port then 800 ports would stretch a lot farther than they > do now... Sorry to say that the code that limits the number of anonymous mounts to 255 does in fact remain. At least it was last time I checked. I have been studying the rpc/nfs code but it is fairly complex so I am not able to work on either of the two thinks you mention yet, because of it. -- ,-._|\ Ian Kent / \ Perth, Western Australia *_.--._/ E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] v Web: http://themaw.net/ _______________________________________________ autofs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
