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Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2001 11:37:12 +0100
From: Gabriel Ambuehl <gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch>
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Subject: Re[2]: What happens on a system with LOTs of mount points (say >1500)?
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Hello Mike,

Saturday, December 08, 2001, 2:40:44 AM, you wrote:
> Assuming the warning in the mount_null man page doesn't scare you, 

I think it should be reasonably safe to use nullfs with rdonly which
is all I need anyway...

> getpwd will probably be slow. If you manage to get them all
> mounted, you're probably OK.

Not a problem at all...

> You might consider creating empty directory trees full of hard
> links back to the thing you want them to get instead. That should
> achieve roughly the same results, and won't be near the burden on
> the sytem.  

That means I need some thousand hard links for each and every user I
got on the system. I somehow doubt that this would help performance
on
disk accesses...


Best regards,
 Gabriel
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