Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 22 Apr 2001 12:32:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 22 Apr 2001 12:32:28 -0400 Received: from linuxjedi.org ([192.234.5.42]:32517 "EHLO linuxjedi.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 22 Apr 2001 12:32:20 -0400 Message-ID: <3AE307AD.821AB47C@linuxjedi.org> Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 12:32:45 -0400 From: "David L. Parsley" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-2 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org CC: ingo.oeser@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de, viro@math.psu.edu Subject: hundreds of mount --bind mountpoints? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 -- David L. Parsley Roanoke College Network Administrator - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/