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From: tar@hilbert.math.ksu.edu (Tim Ramsey)
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Subject: Will mounting on a symbolic link cause excessive overhead?
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I'm running SunOS 4.1.  Currently, I have a /usr and a /export/exec
partition.  It would simplify some things if I could combine the two
(perhaps by moving the contents of /export/exec to /usr/export/exec and
making /export/exec a symbolic link to /usr/export/exec).  My clients
would continue to mount /export/exec/... for their /usr partition.  

Will this cause nfsd to traverse the symbolic link everytime a client
accesses something on its /usr partition?  As I understand it, that would
be less than efficient.

Please email your responses; I'll post a summary if asked.  Thanks for any
wisdom on this.

Tim Ramsey (tar@hilbert.math.ksu.edu)
Dept. of Mathematics, Kansas State University, Manhattan KS 66506
Phone: (913) 532-6750 (voice) 2-7004 (FAX)