Re: mounting windows shares with path exactly like on windows

[Thorsten Kranzkowski <dl8bcu@dl8bcu.de>]

On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 10:50:51AM +0200, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> Alan Jenkins wrote:
>
>> Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
>>>> In short - I've got bunch of applications running both on windows and
>>>> linux and these applications \
>>>> exchange links to files mounted on both sides. The problem is that
>>>> these paths are different, i.e. like \
>>>> D:/dir/file on windows and /mountpoint/dir/file on Linux. What I need
>>>> is unifying them. So my idea is to \
>>>> have path translator on anything on kernel level, which will make
>>>> Linux open call to D:/dir/file on Linux \
>>>> work and open /mountpoint/dir/file. Was anything close to that ever
>>>> incorporated in kernel?
>>>
>>> What's wrong with just:
>>>
>>> # mkdir -p /D:/dir
>>> # mount.cifs ...
>>> # touch /D:/dir/file
>>>
>>> ?
>>>
>>> Or, use symlinks from /D:/dir to /mountpoint/dir/
>> That only works from the root directory though.  In unix, "C:/" is a
>> relative path.
>
> Yeah, creating "C:" symlink in each and every directory accessed by the 
> application doesn't sound like a neat solution.

current working directory, actually. Which means you don't necessarily have
to use the filesystem root but only a proper start directory for these
mounts/links. But yeah, we don't know if said proprietary application 
does/doesn't cwd() to it. 

I suggest extending this mess a bit:

# mkdir -p /server/share
# mount.cifs ... 

and use UNC paths. '//server/share/dir/file.txt' will work out nicely :-)

Thorsten.

> BTW, it's the first time I hear about a unix application which has paths 
> like D:/ or C:/ hardcoded.
>
>
> -- 
> Tomasz Chmielewski
> http://wpkg.org

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