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Subject: Re: What is the best way to setup a driver
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> > The "/etc" directory is not allowed to be other than on the root file
> > system, by definition.  That resolves the symlink problem.
> 
> This is not clear to me. Can you explain in more detail how this resolves
> the problem?

If /etc is not allowed to be a symlink, you do not have to worry about
the target of the link not being mounted.

One wonders how you would run /etc/rc to mount the volume with the link
target to get at the rc file without first running the rc file in any
case.

Patient: "Doctor, it hurts when I do this..."
Doctor:  "Don't do that."


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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