Re: Running several instances of an fs server...

[Ludovic Courtès]

On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 03:42:22PM -0400, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote:
> If you've already got the filesystem `mounted', wouldn't it normally
> make more sense to make a firmlink to the existing mount-point than to
> re-mount the store?
> 
> Or even just use the existing mountpoint?
> 
> I suppose that the administrator might setup a node like
> "/mnt/shared-fs-0" where the filesystem would be `mounted', and
> everyone who wants to refer to it by another path (for easy of typing
> or whatever) could just make firmlinks or symlinks to this node.

Well, that's true. That's just not the way I was thinking about it. ;)
Actually, I was thinking about everyone having his own things mounted in his
home dir, but that doesn't make better sense that accessing directly the mount
point in this case, you're right...

Thanks,
Ludovic.