Re: Limit to number of Mounts? (NFS)

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 26 Nov 1996 23:31:19 +0000 (GMT)


> Is there a hard limit to the number of volumes that
> can be mounted via NFS? Why? Where is it documented?
> How do we change it, for example, to have no arbitrary limit?

There is a hard limit of NFS volumes by socket (2000 or so by default),
and by the number of mounted file systems (include/linux/fs.h NR_SUPER).
You can make that bigger and build a new kernel.

Why isnt it dynamic - good question. It ought to become so