On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 10:40:04AM -0700, Garrett D'Amore wrote: > I actually wonder if a different approach to this would be better -- say > a per-filesystem tunable that enables parsing of symbolic links, then a > simple -- *short* -- magic token that activates it. Say @@ or > somesuch. (Simpler is better here.) The filesystem tunable would be > available for administrators that don't want to use referrals, and have > @@ (or whatever the magic token is) references already in their > filesystems...
The magic could actually be a special automount map, so that any app reading a symlink and traversing it on its own would still get to the right object. /ref/<reparse-point-config>
