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.

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