Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:18:59 +0200 | From | Tomasz Chmielewski <> | Subject | Re: mounting windows shares with path exactly like on windows |
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> 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/
-- Tomasz Chmielewski http://wpkg.org
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