Re: [Request for inclusion] Filesystem in Userspace

Mike Waychison
2004-11-17T20:03:51Z

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Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>>Unless, of course, by "polluted" you mean that output of "cat
>>/proc/self/mounts" becomes longer.
>
>
> Precisely that. I recall there once was "you're exceeding the maximum number of
> filesystems" or such, has that "bug"/"non-feature" been lifted?
>

Two issues are resolved in current 2.6:

- /proc/mounts used to be limitted to a page of data, fixed mid 2.4
- there used to be a limit of pseudo-block backed filesystems in a
system, which was fixed by distros by using multiple majors, fixed
properly in 2.6.4-rc1

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Mike Waychison
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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