linux-kernel - Re: mounting windows shares with path exactly like on windows

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Date:	Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:18:59 +0200
From:	Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@...g.org>
To:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
CC:	alan-jenkins@...fmail.co.uk, kovlensky@...eria.pl
Subject: Re: mounting windows shares with path exactly like on windows

> 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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