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From: richard@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo,comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: NFS Mount Point Strategy?
Message-ID: <3737@skye.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 12 Nov 90 16:00:23 GMT
References: <1990Nov10.144551.809@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca>
Reply-To: richard@aiai.UUCP (Richard Tobin)
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In article <1990Nov10.144551.809@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca> system@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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