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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 00/14] GFS
    On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 01:09:17PM +0200, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote:
    > On 2005-08-10T12:05:11, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
    >
    > > > What would a syntax look like which in your opinion does not remove
    > > > totally valid symlink targets for magic mushroom bullshit? Prefix with
    > > > // (which, according to POSIX, allows for implementation-defined
    > > > behaviour)? Something else, not allowed in a regular pathname?
    > > None. just don't do it. Use bindmount, they're cheap and have sane
    > > defined semtantics.
    >
    > So for every directoy hiearchy on a shared filesystem, each user needs
    > to have the complete list of bindmounts needed, and automatically resync
    > that across all nodes when a new one is added or removed? And then have
    > that executed by root, because a regular user can't?

    Do it in an initscripts and let users simply not do it, they shouldn't
    even know what kind of filesystem they are on.

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