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SubjectRe: [PATCH] VFS autmounter support
DateTue, 24 Jun 2003 16:23:40 +0100
FromDavid Howells <>
> > Sorry... you're correct. That should have been "ls -F" or "ls --color",
> > both of which are, I believe, commonly used - _they_ definitely use stat()
> > as well as lstat().
> 
> Only if S_ISLNK.

I don't know how widespread the practice is, but in the AFS Admin Guide under
"Configuring Your AFS Filespace" / "The Second (Cellname) Level" it suggests
creating symlinks in /afs to provide aliases for cells. For instance, in my
test cell, I've got:

[root@host135 root]# ls -l /afs
total 0
lrwxr-xr-x    1 4077     root           20 Feb  7  2002 cambridge -> cambridge.redhat.com
drw-r--r--    1 4077     root           11 Feb  7  2002 cambridge.redhat.com
drw-r--r--    1 4077     root           29 Mar 27  2002 grand.central.org

Unfortunately, the above command causes cambridge.redhat.com to be mounted
with the follow_link() on directory method you suggested (which is
undesirable):-/

David
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