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From: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Subject: Re: Limit on return string from program map
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 14:23:33 +0800 (WST)
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To: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
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On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Keith Owens wrote:

> Kernel 2.6.9, autofs v4 as a module, autofs-4.1.3-28 (FC3).  I added
> "/net /etc/auto.net" to /etc/auto.master and it works fine, up to a
> point.  ps shows
> 
> /usr/sbin/automount --timeout=60 /net program /etc/auto.net
> 
> If the target server has a lot of mounted filesystems then automount
> will only mount the first few entries on the list.  Then it tries to
> run mount with invalid input.  It looks like there is a hard coded
> limit on the string that automount expects from a program map.  My
> virtual CD server has lots of CD images mounted over loopback, each
> with its own export entry, so the return string from auto.net is quite
> long.

The buffer size for map entries is 4096.

Ian