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- Lines: 38
- Date:
Mon Apr 12 10:10:27 1999
- Orig file:
v2.2.5/linux/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt
- Orig date:
Thu Nov 19 09:56:27 1998
diff -u --recursive --new-file v2.2.5/linux/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt linux/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
-Documentation for /proc/sys/fs/* kernel version 2.1.128
- (c) 1998, Rik van Riel <H.H.vanRiel@phys.uu.nl>
+Documentation for /proc/sys/fs/* kernel version 2.2.5
+ (c) 1998, 1999, Rik van Riel <riel@nl.linux.org>
For general info and legal blurb, please look in README.
==============================================================
This file contains documentation for the sysctl files in
-/proc/sys/fs/ and is valid for Linux kernel version 2.1.
+/proc/sys/fs/ and is valid for Linux kernel version 2.2.
The files in this directory can be used to tune and monitor
miscellaneous and general things in the operation of the Linux
@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@
- inode-max
- inode-nr
- inode-state
+- super-max
+- super-nr
Documentation for the files in /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc is
in Documentation/binfmt_misc.txt.
@@ -113,4 +115,12 @@
system needs to prune the inode list instead of allocating
more.
+==============================================================
+
+super-max & super-nr:
+These numbers control the maximum number of superblocks, and
+thus the maximum number of mounted filesystems the kernel
+can have. You only need to increase super-max if you need to
+mount more filesystems than the current value in super-max
+allows you to.
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