2009/387 [Pathname Reparse Points]

[Joerg Schilling]

Robert Thurlow <robert.thurlow at sun.com> wrote:

> No.  The point [of the follow-on NFS case] is to move the
> automounter-based namespace processing to the server, by
> use of referrals.  The symlinks will not be usable unless
> the key they carry can be looked up in some kind of
> infrastructure, e.g. an LDAP server.  If you use the
> automounter, you rely on other systems data correctness
> in a comparable way.

Do you see a benefit from replacing technology that is known since more than 20 
years by something that does not yet have even test users?

Jörg

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