Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!tektronix!orca!tekecs!frip!andrew From: andrew@frip.gwd.tek.com (Andrew Klossner) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: //host vs "mount point" Message-ID: <9514@tekecs.TEK.COM> Date: 11 Dec 87 21:59:05 GMT References: <648@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <1668@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <9446@tekecs.TEK.COM> <9591@mimsy.UUCP> <9508@tekecs.TEK.COM> Sender: nobody@tekecs.TEK.COM Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville, Oregon Lines: 28 [] "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]