2009/387 [Pathname Reparse Points]

[Garrett D'Amore]

Nicolas Williams wrote:
> 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>
>   
That would be a quite elegant design, IMO.

    - Garrett