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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: NFS4 mount problem
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 11:37:12 -0700
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On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 11:36:25 +0100
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote:

> Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
> 
> > I don't think we should encourage filesystem writers to do such stupid
> > things as ncfps/smbfs do.  In fact I'm totally unhappy thay nfs4 went
> > down that road.
> 
> The problem with NFS4, I think, is that the mount syscall sets a hard limit on
> the amount of mount data that's insufficiently large.

That's correct, it currently cannot support more than one page
of data.  Even worse, that makes the limit platform dependent.