On Thu, 2008-11-20 at 07:08 -0500, Dan Cross wrote: > > term% cat /n/unix-fs-symlinks/home/glenda/mama > > / > > # Best of all -- it all works as expected > > term% cd /n/unix-fs/home/glenda/mama > > term% ls > > bin cdrom etc initrd initrd.img.old lib32 lost+found mnt > > proc sbin sys usr vmlinuz > > boot dev home initrd.img lib lib64 media opt > > root srv tmp var vmlinuz.old > > There's certainly an esthetic niceness to that for symlinks and the > rest of the weird POSIX gunk;
Thank you for saying that. > I don't know how well it might work for something like locks, Well, nobody yet offered any arguments for why it shouldn't. > I guess the two considerations there are overall system consistency > and how much one wants to try and make something weird "fit in" with > the rest of the system. I got a feeling that Eric was implying that this approach would somehow be more difficult for building the servers. I also got an impression that he was suggesting implementing one in order to feel the difference. Sadly, I can't really commit to doing that just yet. Thanks, Roman.
