Re: FW: [patch 01/02] vfs: variant symlinks
On Sat, 2007-09-29 at 12:40 -0700, Schmidt, Kenneth P wrote: > The best example of how this can be useful is to allow a heterogeneous > environment which uses a common filesystem. For example, both x86_64 and > power systems could mount a root nfs share and execute with a common set of > configurations and data, but the binary directories (bin and lib) could > point to architecture specific directories. That would hardly be a portable NFS environment. Boot a Solaris, or older Linux kernel, and watch your applications barf... This sort of stuff belongs in the automounter, not the kernel. Trond - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Re: FW: [patch 01/02] vfs: variant symlinks
On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 12:40:23PM -0700, Schmidt, Kenneth P wrote: > The best example of how this can be useful is to allow a heterogeneous > environment which uses a common filesystem. For example, both x86_64 and > power systems could mount a root nfs share and execute with a common set of > configurations and data, but the binary directories (bin and lib) could > point to architecture specific directories. mount --bind /usr/$(ARCH)/bin /usr/bin mount --bind /usr/$(ARCH)/lib /usr/lib or corresponding ones in /etc/fstab. BFD... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/