From: Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@wpkg.org>
To: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk, kovlensky@interia.pl
Subject: Re: mounting windows shares with path exactly like on windows
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:18:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48B7B0F3.1050601@wpkg.org> (raw)
> 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/
--
Tomasz Chmielewski
http://wpkg.org
next reply other threads:[~2008-08-29 8:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-29 8:18 Tomasz Chmielewski [this message]
2008-08-29 8:40 ` mounting windows shares with path exactly like on windows Alan Jenkins
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2008-08-29 10:54 kovlensky
2008-08-29 11:11 ` Al Viro
2008-08-29 8:50 Tomasz Chmielewski
2008-08-29 9:13 ` Thorsten Kranzkowski
2008-08-29 8:03 Alan Jenkins
2008-08-28 9:59 kovlensky
2008-08-29 9:36 ` el es
2008-08-29 9:49 ` Walter Franzini
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