> 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.
