Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:13:46 +0000 | From | Thorsten Kranzkowski <> | Subject | Re: mounting windows shares with path exactly like on windows |
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On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 10:50:51AM +0200, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: > Alan Jenkins wrote: > >> 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. > > Yeah, creating "C:" symlink in each and every directory accessed by the > application doesn't sound like a neat solution.
current working directory, actually. Which means you don't necessarily have to use the filesystem root but only a proper start directory for these mounts/links. But yeah, we don't know if said proprietary application does/doesn't cwd() to it.
I suggest extending this mess a bit:
# mkdir -p /server/share # mount.cifs ...
and use UNC paths. '//server/share/dir/file.txt' will work out nicely :-)
Thorsten.
> BTW, it's the first time I hear about a unix application which has paths > like D:/ or C:/ hardcoded. > > > -- > Tomasz Chmielewski > http://wpkg.org
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