On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 10:14:16AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Roger Leigh <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> Yeah, it's basically a tradeoff between chroot handling and "nested"
> symlinks.  I suppose I'm probably old-school here, in that I learned how
> to do UNIX system administration before such things as bind mounts and
> back when disks were tiny, so I've used top-level symlinks to move things
> around a lot and appreciated Debian's care in ensuring that didn't break
> symlinks.  However, Bill correctly points out that the world has moved on
> and bind mounts are usually a better solution.

It just happens that I used proprietary OS with feature similar to bind mounts
years before Linux supported them :-)

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <[email protected]>

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