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RE: FS layout issues for v1.1 (eg., /bin and /usr/bin)
- To: "'cygwin-developers at sourceware dot cygnus dot com'" <cygwin-developers at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Subject: RE: FS layout issues for v1.1 (eg., /bin and /usr/bin)
- From: "Parker, Ron" <rdparker at butlermfg dot org>
- Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 11:43:21 -0600
- Cc: Egor Duda <deo at logos-m dot ru>
-----Original Message-----
From: Egor Duda [mailto:deo@logos-m.ru]
Sent: Tuesday, February 29, 2000 1:37 AM
To: cygwin-developers@sourceware.cygnus.com; Mumit Khan
Subject: Re: FS layout issues for v1.1 (eg., /bin and /usr/bin)
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> MK> The question is -- how do we make /bin and /usr/bin the same?
> MK> a. Symlinks: cygcheck could check and report this if the user somehow
> MK> deletes it.
> the only drawback i see is performance going down. we all know that
> symlinks are rather slow.
What would be the side effects of using matched mounts instead of symlinks?
For, example
mount -b C:\\cygwin /
mkdir /usr/bin
mount -b C:\\bin /usr/bin
or,
mount -b C:\\cygwin /
mkdir /bin
mount -b C:\\usr\\bin /bin
<snip>