Re: mounting windows shares with path exactly like on windows

[Tomasz Chmielewski]

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.

BTW, it's the first time I hear about a unix application which has paths 
like D:/ or C:/ hardcoded.


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Tomasz Chmielewski
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