Upper limit on mount points?

Daniel Eriksson daniel_k_eriksson at telia.com
Wed May 16 08:06:53 UTC 2007


Bill Moran wrote:

> We have some systems with a lot of jails.  We're using ezjail, which
results
> in a lot of nullfs mounts.  In combination with some other nullfs
tricks I'm
> using on this system, I'm a bit concerned that we're going to hit some
sort
> of limit on the number of mountpoint.
>
> Google hasn't been much help, and I thought I'd ask here before I dug
in to
> the sourcecode.  I'm wondering if there's an upper limit (either hard
or
> practical) on the number of mountpoints on a system?

I have a box running 6-STABLE that has 700+ nullfs mounts, and it runs
just fine.

/Daniel Eriksson


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