Re: mounting large number of NFS filesystems

[Richard Gooch <rgooch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

David Dooling writes:
> Summary
> -------
> I am currently unable to mount more than 256 NFS filesystems under
> Linux.  I have tried several ways to get around this, but they have
> all failed.  After reading up on devfs, I decided to try it.  However,
> I am still unable to mount any more partitions.  Is there any way
> devfs can be used to do this?.

Yes, but you need to modify the NFS client code in the kernel to
support multiple majors. The <devfs_alloc_major> function can be used
to safely allocate extra majors as required.

                                Regards,

                                        Richard....
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