Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2003 21:38:04 +0800
From: Bernard Blackham <b-lkml@blackham.com.au>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] VFS mapping table
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Hi,

Whilst setting up a bunch of thin clients, I thought it'd be really
useful if a symlink could be pointed at, say /mnt/{ip}/hostname and
{ip} would expand to the IP address of the machine (inspired by
Tru64 unix).

It was subsequently realised that this could have other uses, so
here is a patch, against 2.4.20 (applies against 2.4.21-rc6 too)
that allows you to expand {keyword} to something customisable
through /proc. For usage details, see the comments at the top of
fs/vfs_map.c

Patch at http://dagobah.ucc.asn.au/linux-2.4.20-vfsmap.diff
68dd58872ec33cfb4ce34306b712a8f4  linux-2.4.20-vfsmap.diff

So does anybody think this would be a useful feature to have, or
just feature bloat? If useful, I'd be happy to port it to 2.5.xx.

Ta,
Bernard.
PS. please CC me on replies.

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