Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 23:56:03 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jamil J. Weatherbee" <jamil@counterintelligence.ml.org> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Filesystem Limits Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970923235027.643C-100000@counterintelligence.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970923223225.11475C-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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No, this comes because I am running some diskless workstations and the bsd nfs implementation (I had to read the exports man page many times to be clear on this point) only allows one permission for each machine per filesystem (unlike the linux user space nfsd). Normally you would put the root filesystems for each worstation under /tftpboot/rootfs then maproot 0:0 for /tftpboot in your etc exports. This makes it possible for any one of the diskless users to mount/alter/modify anyone of the other diskless users root filesystems, to fix this under freebsd you need to have a seperate filesystem on the nfs server for each diskless workstation --- I am just wondering how I am limited per drive in this respect. On Tue, 23 Sep 1997, Doug White wrote: > On Tue, 23 Sep 1997, Jamil J. Weatherbee wrote: > > > What is the most filesystems that you can put on a single physical IDE > > drive and how? > > I can't find any hard limits poking through the man pages, but I suppose > you get into trouble when you hit partition 'z'. Having a lot of > filesystems is impractical to deal with, since you have to mount them all > to use them. > > How, I suppose you just create more partitions by specifying them in the > disklabel. > > You aren't asking about DOS partitions, are you? > > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major > Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo > >
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