Date: Fri, 03 Jul 1998 09:07:21 -0400 From: Robert Withrow <witr@rwwa.com> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Variant Link implementation, continued Message-ID: <199807031307.JAA02925@spooky.rwwa.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 02 Jul 1998 10:52:26 EDT." <199807021452.KAA15866@lakes.dignus.com>
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rivers@dignus.com said: :- Eventually, we concluded that the fact that a symlink can change :- because of an 'external' influence was a bad idea. More or less, so did I. As you point it it seems to be an idea that doesn't scale well. In our environment of > 1000 computers and approx 100 automounted filesystems, I'd worry that the const of management of using this feature would exceed the benefit. Note that AMD solves a similiar problem in different way. For example, /usr/global/bin gets directed to the correct filesystem based on the architecture/os. Perhaps a *limited* form of this feature (for example, not involving a users ENV) might be useful. I don't think that our internal support people would like a sitation where who filesystem subtrees disappear or get misdirected do to a hapless user accidentally clobbering a environment variable named, say, "OS". I'd urge caution here. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert Withrow, R.W. Withrow Associates, Swampscott MA, witr@rwwa.COM To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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