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Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 18:42:09 -0700
From: Tim Hockin <thockin@hockin.org>
To: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
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Subject: Re: [NFS] RE: [autofs] multiple servers per automount
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Recap: Mike Waychison posted a simple patch to make Max_anon bit array
(NFS mounts etc.) use exactly one page.

On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 08:47:57AM +0800, Ian Kent wrote:
> I there any chance this would be accepted into 2.6.0?
> 
> I think it's quite important, hopefully others do as well.


Wouldn't it be saner to have a sysctl to adjust that?  From 1 page to
2^20/(PAGE_SIZE * CHAR_BIT) pages?  Perhaps just in page-sized increments?

This would be a simple patch... But maybe it's not 'stabilization' for
2.6.0.

Maybe the simple version in 2.6.0 and the right version in 2.6.1?

Linus?