[SunHELP] NFS mount and symbolic links

[Edward Chase]

So, I'm dealing with a limitation of the Snap! server itself?

If so, poop!

Yep... Looking in the manual...  no support for symbolic or hard 
links.  That could be an issue for what we wanted to do with this.

Well it was only a test, but the test failed before it really got 
started.  So much for our "no cost" option.

Poop.

Thanks.


At 09:33 AM 11/7/2002 -0800, Greg wrote:
>On 11/07/02 09:08, Edward Chase wrote:
>>I can't create symbolic links on the NFS filesystem itself?
>
>Not if the NFS server's underlying filesystem does not support symbolic 
>links.  It can't perform operations it doesn't know how to perform.
>
>>The only mount option I used was "hard".  Do I need something else?
>
>An NFS server that supports symbolic links?
>
>You could always create a large file on the NFS server, use lofi to treat 
>it as a block device, create a UFS file system on it, then mount it as 
>/usr/local on your machine.  It'll then have all of the traditional Unix 
>filesystem semantics.  But it wouldn't be as efficient.
>
>-greg