Re: FW: [patch 01/02] vfs: variant symlinks

2007-09-29 Thread Trond Myklebust
On Sat, 2007-09-29 at 12:40 -0700, Schmidt, Kenneth P wrote: > The best example of how this can be useful is to allow a heterogeneous > environment which uses a common filesystem. For example, both x86_64 and > power systems could mount a root nfs share and execute with a common set of > configura

Re: FW: [patch 01/02] vfs: variant symlinks

2007-09-29 Thread Al Viro
On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 12:40:23PM -0700, Schmidt, Kenneth P wrote: > The best example of how this can be useful is to allow a heterogeneous > environment which uses a common filesystem. For example, both x86_64 and > power systems could mount a root nfs share and execute with a common set of > co

FW: [patch 01/02] vfs: variant symlinks

2007-09-29 Thread Schmidt, Kenneth P
On 9/28/07 11:22 AM, "Jan Dittmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ken Schmidt wrote: >> Variant symlinks add the ability to embed variables in to the >> contents of symbolic links so their targets can change based on >> outside sources (user environment, uts, filesystems, etc.) > > Could you elab