Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ulowell!hawk!arosen From: arosen@hawk.ulowell.edu (MFHorn) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: What kinds of things... (really: nfs mounting files) Message-ID: <13496@swan.ulowell.edu> Date: 31 May 89 21:07:04 GMT References: <106326@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <3290@ncar.ucar.edu> <7018@cbmvax.UUCP> Sender: news@swan.ulowell.edu Reply-To: arosen@hawk.ulowell.edu (MFHorn) Organization: University of Lowell, CS Dept Lines: 20 In article <7018@cbmvax.UUCP> grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins) writes: >In article smartin@iemsun.dhc (Stephen Martin) writes: >> I would like to see a way to NFS mount or remotely link a specific file >> without having to mount a whole directory. > >The "mount point" must be a directory, but it turns into a "file" when a >remote file is mounted on it. > >I haven't the faintest idea whether it is "supposed" to work or not, I was >a bit surprised when I discovered this "feature" by accident. I too was surprised to find it work (SunOS 4.0 mounted a DG/UX 4.02 file). But if you stop and think that all diskless clients 'mount' a swap _file_ from the server, it makes some sense that it should work. -- Andy Rosen | arosen@hawk.ulowell.edu | "I got this guitar and I ULowell, Box #3031 | ulowell!arosen | learned how to make it Lowell, Ma 01854 | | talk" -Thunder Road RD in '88 - The way it should've been