Messages in this thread | | | From | Rainer Krienke <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.17:Increase number of anonymous filesystems beyond 256? | Date | Mon, 21 Jan 2002 13:40:41 +0100 |
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On Thursday, 17. January 2002 19:55, Pete Zaitcev wrote: > >[from linux-kernel] > > I have to increase the number of anonymous filesystems the kernel can > > handle and found the array unnamed_dev_in_use fs/super.c and changed the > > array size from the default of 256 to 1024. Testing this patch by > > mounting more and more NFS-filesystems I found that still no more than > > 800 NFS mounts are possible. One more mount results in the kernel saying: > > > > Jan 17 14:03:11 gl kernel: RPC: Can't bind to reserved port (98). > > Jan 17 14:03:11 gl kernel: NFS: cannot create RPC transport. > > Jan 17 14:03:11 gl kernel: nfs warning: mount version older than kernel > > I did that. You also need a small fix to mount(8) that adds > a mount argument "-o nores". I've got an RPM at my website. > > Initially I did a sysctl, but Trond M. asked for a mount > argument, in case you have to mount from several servers, > some of which require reserved ports, some do not. > Our NetApps work ok with non-reserved ports on clients. >
Anyone has the patch Pete mentioned above for mount. He mailed the kernel patches but I am unable to find the mount fix he talked about.
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