From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from metis.ext.pengutronix.de ([2001:6f8:1178:4:290:27ff:fe1d:cc33]) by merlin.infradead.org with esmtps (Exim 4.76 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1TAOXi-0006p5-QZ for barebox@lists.infradead.org; Sat, 08 Sep 2012 17:10:03 +0000 Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2012 19:09:57 +0200 From: Sascha Hauer Message-ID: <20120908170957.GQ24458@pengutronix.de> References: <20120907120713.GQ20330@game.jcrosoft.org> <1347020017-12110-1-git-send-email-plagnioj@jcrosoft.com> <1347020017-12110-11-git-send-email-plagnioj@jcrosoft.com> <20120908134937.GC18243@pengutronix.de> <20120908144746.GZ20330@game.jcrosoft.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120908144746.GZ20330@game.jcrosoft.org> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: barebox-bounces@lists.infradead.org Errors-To: barebox-bounces+u.kleine-koenig=pengutronix.de@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/11] defaultenv-2: add symbolic link support to boot/nfs To: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD Cc: barebox@lists.infradead.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 -- Pengutronix e.K. | | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | Peiner Str. 6-8, 31137 Hildesheim, Germany | Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 | _______________________________________________ barebox mailing list barebox@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/barebox