Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 1 Jun 2003 21:38:04 +0800 | From | Bernard Blackham <> | Subject | [PATCH] VFS mapping table |
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Hi,
Whilst setting up a bunch of thin clients, I thought it'd be really useful if a symlink could be pointed at, say /mnt/{ip}/hostname and {ip} would expand to the IP address of the machine (inspired by Tru64 unix).
It was subsequently realised that this could have other uses, so here is a patch, against 2.4.20 (applies against 2.4.21-rc6 too) that allows you to expand {keyword} to something customisable through /proc. For usage details, see the comments at the top of fs/vfs_map.c
Patch at http://dagobah.ucc.asn.au/linux-2.4.20-vfsmap.diff 68dd58872ec33cfb4ce34306b712a8f4 linux-2.4.20-vfsmap.diff
So does anybody think this would be a useful feature to have, or just feature bloat? If useful, I'd be happy to port it to 2.5.xx.
Ta, Bernard. PS. please CC me on replies.
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