On Mon, Sep 03, 2012 at 12:04:09PM +0200, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote: > HI, > > v3: > - fix support > mkdir mymount > mount -t ramfs none mymount/ > ln /env/boot/net /mymount/link > > - addres comments > > v2: > addres comments > > please pull > The following changes since commit b77300ac6c6bbbc7eac774ff0076c7c05d39735f: > > command/mount: add autodetection support (2012-08-21 18:53:00 +0800) > > are available in the git repository at: > > git://git.jcrosoft.org/barebox.git tags/fs-symlink > > for you to fetch changes up to dbae117ee78df0e4110db3a3acf4f9a8bee658d0: > > defautenv: add support of symlink (2012-09-03 17:57:23 +0800) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > fs: add symlink and readlink support Now we have: > # mkdir ram > # mount -t ramfs none /ram/ > # ln /env/boot/initrd ram/link > # ls -l ram/ > lrwxrwxrwx 16 link -> /ram/env/boot/initrd > # cat ram/link > could not open ram/link: No such file or directory The link should point to /env/boot/initrd instead. This is probably related to your comment to nfs link support: >> There is something wrong here. I do not understand what you do here, but >> symlinks are not supposed to bash on them with dirname/basename until >> you get something which fits your needs. > here the issue is that on nfs you need to mount the correct path >otherwise you > can not get the real file > > so we need to detect it and mount the correct path This is wrong. If you put an absolute link somewhere and mount the filesystem a somewhere else as NFS, then yes, the link will be broken if the mountpoints do not match. A symbolic link is basically just a text file, there is no magic behind it that fixes pathes according to mount pathes. Sascha -- Pengutronix e.K. | | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | Peiner Str. 6-8, 31137 Hildesheim, Germany | Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 | _______________________________________________ barebox mailing list barebox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/barebox
