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Message-ID: <48B7B0F3.1050601@wpkg.org>
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/
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Tomasz Chmielewski
http://wpkg.org
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