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From: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
To: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>
Cc: barebox@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/11] defaultenv-2: add symbolic link support to boot/nfs
Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2012 19:09:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120908170957.GQ24458@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120908144746.GZ20330@game.jcrosoft.org>

On Sat, Sep 08, 2012 at 04:47:46PM +0200, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
> > > +		fi
> > 
> > symbolic links either point to the target or not, but doing magic on
> > them to try to interpret where they *could* point to is no option.
> the issue with nfs is the mount path
> you need to mount `dirname file`
> 
> but if the file is a symlink this is where it's complex you need to resolv it
> and mount the real path
> 
> I'd prefer to avoid it but nfs is like this
> as you may just be allow to see a part of the host tree via nfs and the host
> have different mountpoint

I'm sure we can find a solution to this, but duplicating this for each
nfs access is not really an option.

Sascha


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      reply	other threads:[~2012-09-08 17:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-07 12:07 [PATCH 00/11 v2] defaultenv-2: add bootp support Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2012-09-07 12:13 ` [PATCH 01/11] defaultenv: enable glovalvar support Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2012-09-07 12:13   ` [PATCH 02/11] defaultenv: switch hostname to global.hostname Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2012-09-07 12:13   ` [PATCH 03/11] dhcp: switch to global var support Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2012-09-07 12:13   ` [PATCH 04/11] dhcp: add copy_only_if_valid support Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2012-09-07 12:13   ` [PATCH 05/11] dhcp: add retries limit support Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2012-09-07 12:13   ` [PATCH 06/11] defaultenv-2: eth0 add default global.dhcp.vendor_id Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2012-09-07 12:13   ` [PATCH 07/11] defaultenv-2/ip: add dhcp-barebox support Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2012-09-08 14:04     ` Sascha Hauer
2012-09-08 14:23       ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2012-09-07 12:13   ` [PATCH 08/11] defaultenv-2: add ifdown support Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2012-09-07 12:13   ` [PATCH 09/11] defaultenv-2: boot/net add bootp support Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2012-09-07 18:21     ` Sascha Hauer
2012-09-08  5:40       ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2012-09-08  6:17         ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2012-09-08 13:47           ` Sascha Hauer
2012-09-08 14:42             ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2012-09-08 14:48               ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2012-09-08 15:10               ` Sascha Hauer
2012-09-08 17:13                 ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2012-09-08 14:51             ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2012-09-08 15:27               ` Sascha Hauer
2012-09-08 17:12                 ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2012-09-08 17:22                   ` Sascha Hauer
2012-09-08 17:35                     ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2012-09-08 18:11                       ` Sascha Hauer
2012-09-08 13:56     ` Sascha Hauer
2012-09-08 14:37       ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2012-09-08 15:09         ` Sascha Hauer
2012-09-08 17:14           ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2012-09-08 18:12             ` Sascha Hauer
2012-09-07 12:13   ` [PATCH 10/11] defaultenv-2: add net boot support with kernel and oftree via nfs Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2012-09-07 12:13   ` [PATCH 11/11] defaultenv-2: add symbolic link support to boot/nfs Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2012-09-08 13:49     ` Sascha Hauer
2012-09-08 14:47       ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2012-09-08 17:09         ` Sascha Hauer [this message]

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