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From: brent%terra@Sun.COM (Brent Callaghan)
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Subject: Re: What kinds of things would you want in the GNU OS?
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Date: 2 Jun 89 20:36:04 GMT
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In article <SMARTIN.89May29072600@iemsun.dhc>, 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.

There's nothing in the NFS protocol or in the MOUNT protocol
that prevents you from doing this now. The only work that
needs to be done is to hack a mount daemon on the server
that'll happily hand over a file handle for a regular file.

There may, however, be assumptions (bugs) in the kernel
that may get in your way.

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