2009/387 [Pathname Reparse Points]

[Nicolas Williams]

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 05:24:50PM -0500, Nicolas Williams wrote:
> Also, how about storing referral data in a per-protocol extended
> attribute instead of all of it as symlink contents?  That would be much
> cleaner since then:
> 
>  - the type of the object (symlink, dir, file...) becomes irrelevant
>  - one can export that object for some protocols, a referral for others
>  - that object could be a symlink with a /net path -- a very nice
>    fallback for NFSv3

I forgot one:

 - each per-protocol referral format might be simple enough that
   runat(1) can be the interface to this, so no need for a CLI in that
   case