gnode: table is full
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alan at shodha.enet.dec.com
Sat Mar 9 10:20:07 AEST 1991
In article <6081 at amc-gw.amc.com>, stewartc at amc-gw.amc.com (Stewart Castaldi) writes:
> Under Ultrix 3.1(?) what are gnodes and how do I make the table larger?
Gnodes are our version of Sun's vnodes. It's a handy
mechanism for supporting mutiple file systems. The
gnode table is sized based on the values of "maxusers"
and the size of the proc table and text table. If you
increase maxusers in the configuration file and rebuild
you'll get a large gnode table (and proc table and text
table and...).
The obligitory maxusers comment.
The configuration file parameter maxusers isn't connected
with the number of users licensed to login. Maxusers is
used to determine the size of various system tables. If
you want bigger tables, raise maxusers. It won't change
the number of people allowed to login.
> I see nothing in the master index or the kernel configuration file about
> gnodes. I have found mention of them in the include files but again
> no explanation.
In the Summer 1986 USENIX Conference Proceedings there is
a paper, "The Generic File System", by Robert Rodriguez,
Matt Koehler and Richard Hyde. There is also another
paper in the Summer 1987 USENIX Conference Proceedings,
"GFS Revisited -or- How I Lived with Four Different Local
File Systems". You should find these interesting reading.
> Thanks in advance.
You're welcome.
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