Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:50:51 +0200 | From | Tomasz Chmielewski <> | Subject | Re: mounting windows shares with path exactly like on windows |
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Alan Jenkins wrote:
> Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: >>> In short - I've got bunch of applications running both on windows and >>> linux and these applications \ >>> exchange links to files mounted on both sides. The problem is that >>> these paths are different, i.e. like \ >>> D:/dir/file on windows and /mountpoint/dir/file on Linux. What I need >>> is unifying them. So my idea is to \ >>> have path translator on anything on kernel level, which will make >>> Linux open call to D:/dir/file on Linux \ >>> work and open /mountpoint/dir/file. Was anything close to that ever >>> incorporated in kernel? >> >> What's wrong with just: >> >> # mkdir -p /D:/dir >> # mount.cifs ... >> # touch /D:/dir/file >> >> ? >> >> Or, use symlinks from /D:/dir to /mountpoint/dir/ > That only works from the root directory though. In unix, "C:/" is a > relative path.
Yeah, creating "C:" symlink in each and every directory accessed by the application doesn't sound like a neat solution.
BTW, it's the first time I hear about a unix application which has paths like D:/ or C:/ hardcoded.
-- Tomasz Chmielewski http://wpkg.org
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