Nicolas Williams wrote: > On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 10:40:04AM -0700, Garrett D'Amore wrote: > >> I actually wonder if a different approach to this would be better -- say >> a per-filesystem tunable that enables parsing of symbolic links, then a >> simple -- *short* -- magic token that activates it. Say @@ or >> somesuch. (Simpler is better here.) The filesystem tunable would be >> available for administrators that don't want to use referrals, and have >> @@ (or whatever the magic token is) references already in their >> filesystems... >> > > The magic could actually be a special automount map, so that any app > reading a symlink and traversing it on its own would still get to the > right object. /ref/<reparse-point-config> > That would be a quite elegant design, IMO.
- Garrett