[PATCH 11/11] defaultenv-2: add symbolic link support to boot/nfs

[Sascha Hauer]

On Sat, Sep 08, 2012 at 04:47:46PM +0200, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
> > > +		fi
> > 
> > symbolic links either point to the target or not, but doing magic on
> > them to try to interpret where they *could* point to is no option.
> the issue with nfs is the mount path
> you need to mount `dirname file`
> 
> but if the file is a symlink this is where it's complex you need to resolv it
> and mount the real path
> 
> I'd prefer to avoid it but nfs is like this
> as you may just be allow to see a part of the host tree via nfs and the host
> have different mountpoint

I'm sure we can find a solution to this, but duplicating this for each
nfs access is not really an option.

Sascha


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