On 27 Sep 2009, Colin Guthrie uttered the following: > If you really, really want to cock about with the real location after > install, then just use unionfs mounts rather than a house of cards > built on symlinks. Three thousand plus unionfs mounts? That strikes me as, well, insane :) there are known scaling bugs when you have that many mounts, and mounts are in any case nonpersistent, thus a very bad choice for this application. > I suspect that many subtle and potentially > dangerous bug could result in a plethora of applications from adopting > this approach and from a point of principle, I'm not sure it should be > encouraged! It works :)