Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:40:56 +0100 | From | Alan Jenkins <> | Subject | Re: mounting windows shares with path exactly like on windows |
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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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