[RFC,PATCH 0/4] Dynamic Pseudo Root

[J. Bruce Fields]

On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 05:23:37PM -0500, Steve Dickson wrote:
> A concern I have with this implement, is how scalable it is? Do server 
> export hundreds or even thousands of directories? I don't know...  If they do, 
> then creating a mount point for each export probably will not scale very well. 

Yeah, we'll need some sort of "automounting" ability.  Neil proposed
using special symlinks of some kind.

> So moving the implementation into the kernel, in the end, *might be* a better
> solution, but at this point its an unknown... so until we do know, I think
> this is a good first step...
> 
> Question: How often are do people run multiple rpc.mountd daemons and
> for what reason? 

People with a lot of clients need to be able to handle mount requests in
parallel, but rpc.mountd already has a --threads= option for them.

I assume the only reason that would happen is by accident.  But we
should make sure it doesn't make things any worse than it has to.

--b.