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SubjectRe: 1279 mounts
On Sat, 27 Apr 2002, Pete Zaitcev wrote:

> > Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 11:25:33 +0300 (EEST)
> > From: Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@welho.com>
>
> > I've got quite a few users here who "need" this functionality and it's
> > included in our RH-based custom kernels. Having it as a separate patch
> > for 2.4 is no problem, for 2.5 I'm hoping we finally move to 32bit device
> > numbers...
>
> Mind, we only ship the unnamed majors part, but not the NFS part.
> There is no word from util-linux maintainer about required
> changes to mount(8), so I was cautious about doint that.

Sure, I know. In these cases getting the limit from 255 to around 800 is
enough so the mount patch isn't even needed.

- Panu -

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