Re: NR_SUPER and "Filehandle denied"

Stephen C. Tweedie (sct@redhat.com)
03 Sep 1998 12:17:19 +0100


Hi,

Alan Modra <alan@spri.levels.unisa.edu.au> writes:

> Very easy. Actually, I fired off my message without properly looking at
> 2.1.x code. 2.1.x already dynamically allocates memory to super-blocks,
> so all we need is a /proc interface to bump the limit. greps again...
> There's *already* a sysctl interface to change max-super!

Yes, but I only added it recently so you may well not have found it
before.

> Apologies for filling mailboxes with useless mail. My only excuse is that
> 2.1.119 doesn't manage to get past trying to mount remote nfs filesystems
> for me.

Does it help if you specify the "-o nolock" mount option?

--Stephen

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