Messages in this thread | | | From | Walter Franzini <> | Subject | Re: mounting windows shares with path exactly like on windows | Date | Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:49:52 +0200 |
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kovlensky@interia.pl writes:
> I'm sorry to be slightly off topic, when it comes to this list, but > I have no clue where to look for that and I think it can be doe on > kernel level only. > > 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? > > Applications are, as usual, closed source, and support for them, > also as usual, answers "won't be fixed, switch to Windows, > please". Very helpful. > > Any other ideas of solving this problem are also warmly > welcomed. Also on windows side.
You may want to look at plasticfs (http://plasticfs.sourceforge.net/)
It does not do what you need, but should not be to difficult to change.
From the Home Page: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Plastic File System is an LD_PRELOAD module for manipulating what the file system looks like for programs. This allows virtual file systems to exist in user space, without kernel hacks or modules. ------------------------------------------------------------------------
HTH -- Walter Franzini http://aegis.stepbuild.org/
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