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From: Erstad@HI-MULTICS.ARPA.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Alternate links
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Date: Wed, 9-Jul-86 13:31:00 EDT
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This is not a good solution, but a stop-gap with the present system.
What we do is create links for /sys/help and much of our software for
disk space reasons.  All links off a particular node are in the form
/softlink/xxx.  For example, CRL /sys/help /softlink/sys/help.  Then, a
single link /softlink points to a node entry directory.  In this way, if
the node is down a single command will retarget all of the links.
However, this is still a manual reconfiguration, which only solves a
small part of your problem.