Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S272492AbTHEPIS (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Aug 2003 11:08:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S272493AbTHEPIS (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Aug 2003 11:08:18 -0400 Received: from mail3.ithnet.com ([217.64.64.7]:29091 "HELO heather-ng.ithnet.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S272492AbTHEPIR (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Aug 2003 11:08:17 -0400 X-Sender-Authentification: SMTPafterPOP by from 217.64.64.14 Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 17:08:14 +0200 From: Stephan von Krawczynski To: root@chaos.analogic.com Cc: helgehaf@aitel.hist.no, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: FS: hardlinks on directories Message-Id: <20030805170814.04326306.skraw@ithnet.com> In-Reply-To: References: <20030804141548.5060b9db.skraw@ithnet.com> <03080409334500.03650@tabby> <20030804170506.11426617.skraw@ithnet.com> <03080416092800.04444@tabby> <20030805003210.2c7f75f6.skraw@ithnet.com> <3F2FA862.2070401@aitel.hist.no> <20030805150351.5b81adfe.skraw@ithnet.com> <20030805160435.7b151b0e.skraw@ithnet.com> Organization: ith Kommunikationstechnik GmbH X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 775 Lines: 18 On Tue, 5 Aug 2003 10:57:11 -0400 (EDT) "Richard B. Johnson" wrote: > But symlinks work over NFS. You just have to make sure they are > relative to whatever the remote mount-point is: Yes, I know this works. But honestly I'd say that this is a very ugly thing. That's why I want to get rid of it completely (using it currently). The straight forward method for linking/remounting stuff is following the links (or whatever) on the fileserver and not on the client (like with symlinks). Regards, Stephan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/