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From: Greg Bradner <gregb@rhythm.com>
Subject: running out of mount points
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 11:32:20 -0800
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I have run into a problem of running out of mount points.  I have over 
600 users and their home dirs are listed in auto.home and they are all 
stored on the same nfs server.  If I list the dirs, automount will 
create a seperate mount point for each user, and at ~256 mount points, 
no more home dirs can be mounted.
Is there a work around?

Here is the auto.master and snip of auto.home


auto.master:
/home                   /etc/auto.maps/auto.home
        vers=3,hard,intr,nosuid,nodev,rw,retrans=4,timeo=15,mountvers=2


auto.home:
gregb ntap:/vol/vol0/u/&