From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 4.0) Description of problem: when the number of nfs mounts gets too large(usually 256) we get this message: "mount table full". Is there a way to increase the number of nfs mounts? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.easy to reproduce just by doing a whole bunch of mounts from remote machines Steps to Reproduce: 1. use a loop to do lots of mounts from another server 2. check after each mount how many mounts 3. eventually get "mount table full". Actual Results: "mount table full", won't do any futher mounts, and we think automount gets confused and won't unmount when quiet. Expected Results: automount should have nfs mounted other users' home directories from other machines, but it can't until some of the currents mounts are unmounted. Additional info: we think that this might be a configarable limit that can be set in /proc, but where?
There was a post recently on the linux-nfs and linux-kernel mail lists - see: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-nfs&m=101976679701722&w=2 Which I _think_ relates to your problem ...
I believe we do a better job in later kernels. Please try the Fedora Core kernels and reopen if necessary