From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: thockin@sun.com
Cc: "Ogden, Aaron A." <aogden@unocal.com>,
autofs@linux.kernel.org, Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Subject: Re: RE: autofs scalability
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 12:04:55 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3FCF9367.8040804@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031204191203.GA17865@sun.com>
Tim Hockin wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 09:37:44AM +0800, Ian Kent wrote:
>
>>>removed the 256 limit, but has made it so that it CAN BE removed. We hav a
>>>prelim patch for that, which I wan tot rework, some, maybe.
>>>
>>
>>Are you refering to the sysctl recommendation.
>>
>>I would like to do it but haven't had time.
>>
>>I'll let you know if I get to start work on it.
>
>
> Ditto. It's simple, but it just hasn't been high enough priority.
>
It really would be better if it was dynamic. Any fixed limit (other
than 2^20 minors) is really a hack.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-04 20:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-03 19:19 autofs scalability Ogden, Aaron A.
2003-12-03 19:43 ` Tim Hockin
2003-12-04 1:37 ` Ian Kent
2003-12-04 19:12 ` Tim Hockin
2003-12-04 20:04 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2003-12-04 22:37 ` Tim Hockin
2003-12-04 23:09 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-12-04 23:12 ` Tim Hockin
2003-12-03 20:01 ` Mike Waychison
2003-12-04 1:35 ` Ian Kent
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