Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2001 11:37:12 +0100 From: Gabriel Ambuehl <gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re[2]: What happens on a system with LOTs of mount points (say >1500)? Message-ID: <135338070730.20011208113712@buz.ch> In-Reply-To: <15377.28572.149380.851720@guru.mired.org> References: <15377.28572.149380.851720@guru.mired.org>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hello Mike, Saturday, December 08, 2001, 2:40:44 AM, you wrote: > Assuming the warning in the mount_null man page doesn't scare you, I think it should be reasonably safe to use nullfs with rdonly which is all I need anyway... > getpwd will probably be slow. If you manage to get them all > mounted, you're probably OK. Not a problem at all... > You might consider creating empty directory trees full of hard > links back to the thing you want them to get instead. That should > achieve roughly the same results, and won't be near the burden on > the sytem. That means I need some thousand hard links for each and every user I got on the system. I somehow doubt that this would help performance on disk accesses... Best regards, Gabriel s¨…Í ØÈ„; -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.5i iQEVAwUBPBHfS8Za2WpymlDxAQEFSwf+KUFfzi5MSIqePkyC90+mPe63VS0UL7zr VnFA1c14r7dgJ4cXp7EE+T7cFIzZ1wIF2q+trlQFg0VXEAnCVV2E76TsawF1EeBB /hhED7uYxc1uZuYRFAHKwlJP0rlcjBF000EQiI212VoSOxOTMj0XkvOqEW4/FBVn hzE9Bouqnr2HLwl2AzM9+uoXrCkq+EFDfKiEcny09kHz8LOZurcfT+4XuMT8E4aq 93ZO/RaI9z3WmDxCHEWZg+RHO0ZyZNKzufuaVjTA8jbh3AbT4KYTwPb/K5zbu7CN WTGl6VonkU3dOUR1FR70NDriS942f08GAl6AuI8gU9up3QNlTfWjlQ== =M0+r -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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