James Melin wrote:
Greetings everyone. I'm up to strangeness again.I'm trying to do something where I expose a collection of files in a directory that are symbolic links via NFS. The NFS mount works, but the files then try to be symbolic links on the local file system where I mount the remote NFS share. (this is unsurprising, upon thinking about it) I suspect hard links would work except you cannot hard link across multiple file systems. example Remote machine dir_1 \ symlink_1 -> /work/target/realfile_1 What I want to be able to do is have a collection of files in dir_1, link to the 'real files' in other places, and by writing to the linked file, update the real file without having to make multiple directory changes in a script. Basically copy from local file system to NFS mounted dir with the file symlink and just have it go where the symlink points to on the remote end. Is this possible, or am I going to have to NFS expose every real file separately - I really don't want to do that as I don't want to have a large exports file to maintain.
the symlinks need to be relative symlink1 -> ../target/realfile or absolute, to work where mounted (which might mean the don't work on the server). -- Cheers John -- spambait [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tourist pics http://portgeographe.environmentaldisasters.cds.merseine.nu/ do not reply off-list ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
