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On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 10:04:45AM +0200, Steffen Neumann wrote: > Second: yes, mounting is done working on the clients, > but once a volume is mounted, it appears at this position > in the tree on all the clients. > (The actual mechanism is beyond me at the moment) The mountpoints are "magic symlinks", i.e. 'ln -s \#volname mountpoint', but with the unix mode bits set to 644 instead of 755. They are stored the same way a regular symlink is stored. When a client attempts to follow such a symlink, it strips off the initial '#', does a getvolinfo on the remainder to locate the servers that host the volume and performs a getattr/fetch for the volume root. Conflicts and the way they are exploded into a directory during repair works similar but a lot messier. JanReceived on 2001-04-12 08:28:26