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Date:      Sat, 29 Jan 2011 17:37:28 +0100
From:      Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Count of mounting filesystem
Message-ID:  <ii1fo8$knp$1@dough.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <E1PiwQw-0007Xk-00.z_serg_2000-mail-ru@f68.mail.ru>
References:  <E1PiwQw-0007Xk-00.z_serg_2000-mail-ru@f68.mail.ru>

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On 28/01/2011 23:04, Serg Z wrote:
> Hello!
>
> How many filesystems I can mount?
> What limits count of mounting filesystem?

Short answer is "too large to bother".

I once did 14,000 mount points just for fun, and it still wasn't the limit:

http://ivoras.net/blog/tree/2009-10-20.the-night-of-1000-jails.html

I think the real limit would be available memory to hold the file system 
structures.




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