2009/387 [Pathname Reparse Points]

[Nicolas Williams]

On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 10:40:04AM -0700, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> I actually wonder if a different approach to this would be better -- say 
> a per-filesystem tunable that enables parsing of symbolic links, then a 
> simple -- *short* -- magic token that activates it.  Say @@ or 
> somesuch.  (Simpler is better here.)   The filesystem tunable would be 
> available for administrators that don't want to use referrals, and have 
> @@  (or whatever the magic token is) references already in their 
> filesystems...

The magic could actually be a special automount map, so that any app
reading a symlink and traversing it on its own would still get to the
right object.  /ref/<reparse-point-config>