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Date:      Mon, 04 Jan 1999 19:23:51 -0700
From:      Chris Tubutis <chris@tci.com>
To:        John Sconiers <jrs@enteract.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: AMD host mounting
Message-ID:  <369177B7.746276F8@tci.com>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901041958300.2947-100000@adam.enteract.com>

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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

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