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SubjectRe: Limit of 64 Mounted Filesystems
On Wed, 25 Nov 1998, Richard Kaszeta wrote:

> On my linux machines, running 2.0.36, I've discovered that there is a
> limit of 64 mounted filesystems. Since I am now using autofs to
> automount user home directories, on machines such as my web server and
> my samba server I occasionally hit this limit. (On the client
> machines it isn't an issue, so I'm only talking about tweaking two or
> three machines)

I also had this problem because I am mounting a lot of clearcase views at
my job - I can hardly work with less than 30 mounted filesystems, and the
64 limit is easy to reach.

> From the 2.0.36 source, I was not able to identify where this limit is
> set.
> Any pointers?

You can change your NR_SUPER in include/linux/fs.h .... I upped it to 256
and am running without problems with a 2.0.36 kernel

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