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SubjectRe: mounting windows shares with path exactly like on windows
Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
>> In short - I've got bunch of applications running both on windows and
>> linux and these applications \
>> exchange links to files mounted on both sides. The problem is that
>> these paths are different, i.e. like \
>> D:/dir/file on windows and /mountpoint/dir/file on Linux. What I need
>> is unifying them. So my idea is to \
>> have path translator on anything on kernel level, which will make
>> Linux open call to D:/dir/file on Linux \
>> work and open /mountpoint/dir/file. Was anything close to that ever
>> incorporated in kernel?
>
> What's wrong with just:
>
> # mkdir -p /D:/dir
> # mount.cifs ...
> # touch /D:/dir/file
>
> ?
>
> Or, use symlinks from /D:/dir to /mountpoint/dir/
That only works from the root directory though. In unix, "C:/" is a
relative path.

Alan



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