Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > 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.
I'm working on that now. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
