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Can Symbolics machines handle SUN automount directories?
Does anyone know of a way to get Symbolics machines to handle SUN automount
directories? Has anyone else run into this issue and does anyone know whether
Symbolics plans to support this in the future? (I've got a question in to
Symbolics software maintenance, but I figured I'd ask here too ....)
(Automount is a SUN facility that helps to provide seamless access to a large
filesystem shared over many hosts. This allows users to ignore some of the
details about exactly where their files are stored, much like logical
pathnames do. The effect of symbolics machines not handling automount
directories would be like their not handling symbolic links -- the user would
be forced to know where in the potentially large filesystem the desired file
resides in order to name it more directly. In a mixed SUN/Symbolics
environment like ours (mostly SUN), it would be good if Symbolic users didn't
have to do more work to keep track of the filesystem than SUN users.)
- Mark Shirley