symbolic links (4.2)

[Mike O'Dell]

> 
>    Believe it or not, I think I have found a good use for symbolic links
> (a Berkeley 4.2 feature). However, the tools to support them are not very
> complete.  For instance, I need to document all symbolic links with back
> pointers to the link's parent directory.  Has anyone actually used
> syumbolic links a lot, or developed any nifty tools for them?  Any horror
> stories?  (I have heard there are bugs).

I have used symbolic links a great deal - they are wonderful for organizing
filesystems!  How about making /usr/tmp the same as /tmp to get heavy
read-write traffic off a filesystem which can then be optimized for read-only
(assuming you put users somewhere else).  Or putting pieces of /usr/src on
a mounted filesystem without having to wreck the heirarchy?

As for things which support them, everything does, albeit there are differing
religious opinions as to whether symfollow() should be on or off in some
cases (some people view these differences as bugs).

One of the biggest things they are good for is project organization,
and as for support in this role, see SPMS, the Software Project 
Management System in the contributed software.

	-Mike