hundreds of mount --bind mountpoints?

David L. Parsley (parsley@linuxjedi.org)
Sun, 22 Apr 2001 12:32:45 -0400


Hi,

I'm still working on a packaging system for diskless (quasi-embedded)
devices. The root filesystem is all tmpfs, and I attach packages inside
it. Since symlinks in a tmpfs filesystem cost 4k each (ouch!), I'm
considering using mount --bind for everything. This appears to use very
little memory, but I'm wondering if I'll run into problems when I start
having many hundreds of bind mountings. Any feel for this?

regards,
David

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David L. Parsley
Roanoke College Network Administrator
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