NFS mounting a directory of symbolic links to other directories

[John.Abreau-3flU0AWMlV4AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org (Abreau John)]

Try hard-linking just the files. Duplicating the directory structure 
won't waste a lot of space if the actual files are hard-linked. 



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From: discuss-bounces-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org [discuss-bounces-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Don Levey [lug-TwWeWiF2EGRi+ztankeudA at public.gmane.org]
Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 11:34 AM
To: Richard Pieri
Cc: L-blu
Subject: Re: NFS mounting a directory of symbolic links to other directories

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Richard Pieri wrote:
> On Feb 25, 2009, at 10:50 AM, Don Levey wrote:
>> I have both /base/music and /base/kidsmusic exported in my /etc/
>> exports
>> file, and I can mount the kidsmusic directory remotely.  However,
>> while
>> I can see all of the links remotely, I can't access them.
>
> Are they hard links or symbolic links?
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All symlinks - I can't make hardlinks to a directory.

 -Don
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