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From: andrew@frip.gwd.tek.com (Andrew Klossner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: //host vs "mount point"
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Date: 11 Dec 87 21:59:05 GMT
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	"You will be happy to learn that //host1//host2/etc/passwd does
	in fact work under DFS."

But it wasn't meant to; it only works by accident.
And a triple reference fails:

    % ls -ld //lemming//hammer//tekecs
    ls : //lemming//hammer//tekecs : Too many levels of symbolic links

(There were no symlinks among these three roots.)

	"And you *can* mount remote filesystems if you really want to."

No you can't:

    % /etc/mount //lemming/dev/ds66a /l
    mount : //lemming/dev/ds66a on /l : Reference is to remote file (sys74)

	"I prefer using symbolic links which: (a) are more flexible,
	and (b) don't require the superuser(s) to get involved."

A big lose of symlinks for this is that root can accidentally "rm" the
connection.  You can't "rm" a mounted mountpoint.

  -=- Andrew Klossner   (decvax!tektronix!tekecs!andrew)       [UUCP]
                        (andrew%tekecs.tek.com@relay.cs.net)   [ARPA]