Re: Having ten thousands of mount bind causes various processes to go into loops
> Best question probably is: what exactly are you needing 14.000 mounts for? Even snaps shouldn't be that ridiculous. So what's your use case? Maybe there's a better solution to what you are doing. If it's just about having a place that is rw only without execution permissions, just crate a separate partition, mount it somewhere - e.g. /home/test/mounts and tell mount/fstab to use the option noexec. No need for for your script. Or if it's a more advanced file system like btrfs you may be able to simply create a subvolume with the same capabilities, no need to tinker around with partitions.
We use the mounts to share an initial folder with either rw or ro
wrights in a user directory. The user directory is then accessible
through a web interface, sftp, webdav and rsync. There is probably
better ways to do that now but that's a legacy app (2009) that we'd
rather leave alone :)
> It's true this issue should be looked into, but it doesn't look urgent as long as there are alternatives.
Yes, not urgent and very specific. I'm going to try to set the mounts
to private as Max suggested and see how it goes.
Thanks for your help.
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