On 2005-08-10T12:05:11, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > What would a syntax look like which in your opinion does not remove > > totally valid symlink targets for magic mushroom bullshit? Prefix with > > // (which, according to POSIX, allows for implementation-defined > > behaviour)? Something else, not allowed in a regular pathname? > None. just don't do it. Use bindmount, they're cheap and have sane > defined semtantics. So for every directoy hiearchy on a shared filesystem, each user needs to have the complete list of bindmounts needed, and automatically resync that across all nodes when a new one is added or removed? And then have that executed by root, because a regular user can't? Sure. Very cheap and sane. I'm buying. Sincerely, Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb@xxxxxxx> -- High Availability & Clustering SUSE Labs, Research and Development SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - A Novell Business -- Charles Darwin "Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge" -- Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster