From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 4 18:24:41 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA14032 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 4 Jan 1999 18:24:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from peacock.tci.com (coral.tci.com [198.178.8.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA14027 for ; Mon, 4 Jan 1999 18:24:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chris@tci.com) Received: from oreo.tci.com (co-chris-pc01.tci.com [172.18.27.65]) by peacock.tci.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id TAA02998; Mon, 4 Jan 1999 19:24:12 -0700 (MST) Received: from tci.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by oreo.tci.com (8.9.1b+Sun/8.9.1) with ESMTP id TAA02629; Mon, 4 Jan 1999 19:23:51 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <369177B7.746276F8@tci.com> Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1999 19:23:51 -0700 From: Chris Tubutis Organization: Tele-Communications, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.7 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Sconiers CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AMD host mounting References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John Sconiers wrote: > > In Solaris there is a root filesystem called /net. This > filesystem (I believe) is taken control of by AMD and when you > give it the command: > > /net/hostname.... > > It attempts to mount all shared filesystems from that hosts or you could > just type: > > /net/hostname/cdrom/cdrom0 > > to mount the /cdrom/cdrom0 fs from that hostname. Would this be something > that would liked to be seen on freebsd. It seems that recently I've been > trying to implement a few features found in other (Solaris' etc) Unix > operating systems. Is this something worht working on. I would kill or die for this functionality. Well, OK, maybe that's an exaggeration, but you get the idea. I use Solaris every day at work and have become extremely accomsted to using the /net/hostname/path convention. Extremely convenient. ct To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message