Re: 1279 mounts

[Shanker Balan <shanu@exocore.com>]

Hello:

Pete Zaitcev wrote,
> I updated my patch that allows to mount unholy numbers of volumes.
> The old version was for 2.4.9 and did not apply anymore.  I split the
> unnamed majors patch and the NFS patch.  Also, CONFIG_ option is gone,
> because it made the code ugly.
> 
> Majors part:
> http://people.redhat.com/zaitcev/linux/linux-2.4.19-pre7-unmaj.diff
> NFS part:
> http://people.redhat.com/zaitcev/linux/linux-2.4.19-pre7-nores.diff
> Userland for NFS:
> http://people.redhat.com/zaitcev/linux/util-linux-2.11q-nores1.diff
 
> Is anyone actually interested? Random people periodically ask me for
> patches, get them and disappear into the void. 

Heh, one of them would be me! :-D

> I hear nothing good or bad (well, nothing since Trond reviewed it
> several months ago, and also someone found a conflict with NFS server
> code, since fixed). 

The requirement for such a large number of mounts does not exist for me
anymore so the patches never went into the production environment for
me.

> I am thinking about submitting, but if users do not ask, why add extra
> bloat and negotiate with LANANA...

IMHO, the Linux kernel's inability to handle mounts > 256 mounts is a
deficiency. 

AFAIK, FreeBSD does not have this problem. I would really appreciate it
if these patches made it into the kernel so that I wont be surprised to
realize that Linux cant do more than 256 mounts out of the box the
next time I try it.

Zaitcev, thanx for making those patches available in the first place.
Oh, will you be rolling the user land patches to util-linux to the RedHat
RPMS?

-- Shanu

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