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Re: FW: [patch 01/02] vfs: variant symlinks

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From: Schmidt, Kenneth P <kenneth.schmidt@...>
To: Jan Dittmer <jdi@...>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@...>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org <linux-kernel@...>
Subject: FW: [patch 01/02] vfs: variant symlinks
Date: Saturday, September 29, 2007 - 3:40 pm

Several networked filesystems (i.e. afs) have similar concepts.  This just

moves it into the vfs layer so that it can be used on all of them and even

local filesystems.


The best example of how this can be useful is to allow a heterogeneous

environment which uses a common filesystem. For example, both x86_64 and

power systems could mount a root nfs share and execute with a common set of

configurations and data, but the binary directories (bin and lib) could

point to architecture specific directories.

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From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@...>
To: Schmidt, Kenneth P <kenneth.schmidt@...>
Cc: Jan Dittmer <jdi@...>, Al Viro <viro@...>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org <linux-kernel@...>
Subject: Re: FW: [patch 01/02] vfs: variant symlinks
Date: Saturday, September 29, 2007 - 5:59 pm

That would hardly be a portable NFS environment. Boot a Solaris, or

older Linux kernel, and watch your applications barf...


This sort of stuff belongs in the automounter, not the kernel.


Trond


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From: Al Viro <viro@...>
To: Schmidt, Kenneth P <kenneth.schmidt@...>
Cc: Jan Dittmer <jdi@...>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org <linux-kernel@...>
Subject: Re: FW: [patch 01/02] vfs: variant symlinks
Date: Saturday, September 29, 2007 - 4:33 pm

mount --bind /usr/$(ARCH)/bin /usr/bin

mount --bind /usr/$(ARCH)/lib /usr/lib


or corresponding ones in /etc/fstab.  BFD...

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