Re: Mountpoint lookup

[Florin Malita <mali@go.ro>]

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On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 23:15, Bryan Henderson wrote:
> To the extent that this translation would be handy, it would be appropriate
> to pass the information as a filesystem-type-specific mount parameter
> (which is actually a parameter of the filesystem image, not of the mount),
> but the semantics of the parameter wouldn't be "this is the mount point,"
> but rather "translate absolute symlinks with respect to this base path."
> You could have a mount program that automatically sets this parameter to
> the same path as the mount point, but of course you'd still have to have a
> lot of disclaimers that imported absolute symlinks don't always work the
> way the user expects.

Sounds reasonable.

But how about translating all remote absolute symlinks to relative ones?
Seems to be quite easy and eliminates any need of mount point knowledge.

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