[Samba] server-side AND client-side symlinks?

John Hodrien johnh at comp.leeds.ac.uk
Thu Mar 6 08:57:44 GMT 2008


On Wed, 5 Mar 2008, Chuck Kollars wrote:

> Server-side symlinks are needed for example when what
> appears to the user to be a single mounted directory
> is actually tens of little pieces tied together by
> symlinks. Having those symlinks coalesces many mounts
> that would all have to be perfect in parallel into a
> single mount that's either fully successful or not.

Perhaps consider bind mounts instead?

jh

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