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- From: prener@watson.ibm.com (Dan Prener)
- Subject: Re: Export list limit
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- In-Reply-To: is@groucho.dev.uga.edu's message of 23 Jul 92 19:46:38 GMT
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 07:44:37 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul23.194638.21875@athena.cs.uga.edu> is@groucho.dev.uga.edu (Bob Stearns) writes:
-
- >We have just reached an UNDOCUMENTED, UNKNOWN, and UNDIAGNOSED limit in
- >exporting file systems. Apparaently somewhere between 13 and 16 is a
- >hard but undiagnosed limit on the number of named individual recipients
- >of a file system. The symptoms include, but are not limited to:
- > du locks up a session so badly that it can not be kill -9ed
- > df similarly
- > some subset of the directories get "xxxxx not readable" while trying
- > little things like ls, pwd, cat
- > file systems become read only, apparently arbitrarily
- > logins lock up after password, so badly they can not be kill -9ed
-
- >If you have seen this, seen documentation on this (yes we did RTFM),
- >know the solution to it, know where to find the solution, know the exact
- >limit, or especially, know the developer so we can fix him, please let
- >us know.
-
- >If you know a circumvention on this limit for large clusters we are very
- >interested in the answer.
-
- You could use netgroups as a work-around. There may be some limit there,
- too, as to how many entries are allowed in a netgroup, but that would
- not be a problem since netgroups can be nested.
- --
- Dan Prener (prener@watson.ibm.com)
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