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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swiss.ans.net!news.dfn.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!darum.uni-mannheim.de!andrew From: andrew@wipux2.wifo.uni-mannheim.de (Andrew Wheadon) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: /etc/exports, how many hosts can I export to? Date: 13 Oct 1994 08:43:08 GMT Organization: Rechenzentrum Uni-Mannheim Lines: 20 Message-ID: <37irut$t33@darum.uni-mannheim.de> References: <37e2aq$o3h@gatekeeper.axis.se> <CxKFpC.C1B@calcite.rhyolite.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: wipux2.wifo.uni-mannheim.de In article <CxKFpC.C1B@calcite.rhyolite.com>, Vernon Schryver <vjs@calcite.rhyolite.com> wrote: >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. The current limit I know of is in src/sbin/mountd.c and is 10240 characters, which is the length of the line that is read in. I don't know whether there are any other limitations, but if there were one could use netgroups to enlargen the list. Cheerio -- The cost of living hasn't affected it's popularity. (unknown) current release=doc host=wipux2.wifo.uni-mannheim.de \ "NetBSD-current mirror" hostbase=/mit/ftp/pub/NetBSD base=/usr prefix=/usr backup delete use-rel-suffix