Bruce Dubbs wrote:

> I did use it for network shares.  When a user logs on, the home
> directory is mounted.  I left that organization and don't in fact use it
> myself any more.  I do have access to another system that does use it.

Very interesting. So, we have two very different use cases:

  * for mounting home directories from network at login time (no symlinks 
needed, because nobody is expected to poke into others' home directories with a 
file manager), and

  * for mounting something normally unmounted, but that should be mounted on 
the 
first use (when the user browses the parent directory with a file manager, 
that's the subject of #2458, symlinks are needed). That's an old-style, but 
still valid, way of mounting removable media.

I think that both should be mentioned, and at least the first one should be 
covered by an example.

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Alexander E. Patrakov
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