NFS Mount Point Strategy?

Richard Tobin richard at aiai.ed.ac.uk
Tue Nov 13 03:00:23 AEST 1990


In article <1990Nov10.144551.809 at alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca> system at alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (System Admin (Mike Peterson)) writes:
>2) What directory structure is best for the actual mount points:

We mount system:dir on /nfs/system/dir and have a symbolic link to this.
This has the advantage that when getwd() searches a directory, it never
looks at unnecessary remote mount points.

-- Richard
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