Re: Max mounted filesystems

Stephen C. Tweedie (sct@redhat.com)
Thu, 21 Jan 1999 13:51:03 GMT


Hi,

On Tue, 19 Jan 1999 17:12:44 -0600 (EST), Russell Steffen
<rsteffen@ia.net> said:

> By default the maximum number of mounted filesystems is 64, correct?

On 2.0, yes.

> And is this value is controlled completely by the value of NR_SUPER in
> linux/fs.h ? (ie, I can raise the lmit to, say 256, just by changing
> NR_SUPER?)

Yes.

On 2.2, it is fully dynamic. Just echo a new value to
/proc/sys/fs/super-max.

--Stephen

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