From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Florin Malita Subject: Re: Mountpoint lookup Date: 06 Feb 2003 12:39:43 +0200 Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <1044523812.1341.48.camel@zed.malinux.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-YIGapfZi393kouLdui83" Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: To: Bryan Henderson In-Reply-To: List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org --=-YIGapfZi393kouLdui83 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 23:15, Bryan Henderson wrote: > To the extent that this translation would be handy, it would be appropria= te > 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. --=20 Florin Malita web: http://www.malinux.net public key: http://www.malinux.net/data/fmalita.gpg --=-YIGapfZi393kouLdui83 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA+Qisk9npXhj/Ohf8RAm2iAJ9qOn+GZe1inmOInUFAJT7zER4P/QCgiUVN C9bCZ3+L2NPU7Ez55Y/S99w= =BTmC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-YIGapfZi393kouLdui83--