Alexander Viro wrote:
> Don't mix symlinks with mounts/bindings. Too much PITA and yes, it had
> been deliberately prohibited. You _really_ don't want to handle the
> broken symlinks and all the realted fun [...]
No. But I hoped _you_ might :-)
> - race-ridden at extreme and useless.
> In automount-like setups you can _replace_ symlinks with bindings.
> No need to mix them.
Hmm. My /etc/auto.opt contains
* :/export/opt/&/LATEST
where all the "LATEST"s etc are symlinks. I found it quite
an elegant way to maintain different versions: the symlink
was de-facto a trivially simple version database.
Does the version state now *have* to be listed in
/etc/auto.opt explicitly? That feels a little retrograde.
Perhaps I'm blissfully unaware of all sorts of vile
race conditions, but why can't the *automounter* chase
the symlinks even if mount shouldn't? Or am I missing
a neater solution?
Rgds
Anthony
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