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From: vjs@calcite.rhyolite.com (Vernon Schryver)
Subject: Re: /etc/exports, how many hosts can I export to?
Message-ID: <CxKFpC.C1B@calcite.rhyolite.com>
Organization: Rhyolite Software
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 1994 15:15:12 GMT
References: <37e2aq$o3h@gatekeeper.axis.se>
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In article <37e2aq$o3h@gatekeeper.axis.se> jh@axis.se (Joergen Haegg) writes:
>The manual says nothing about limitations in /etc/exports.
>Other NFS-implementations (read Sun) has a limit of ten hosts or netgroups.
> ...

Which Sun system is this?
A long time ago, in the first code which supported access lists, they
had a limitation of 256 bytes for the entire access list, but not a
simple limit of 10 hosts.


Vernon Schryver    vjs@rhyolite.com