> The CD-ROM issue might be handled by using the special name feature in
> the Rock Ridge specification which allows for a component of a symlink
> target pathname to be replaced by the "hostname".
> 
...
> 
> (RRIP also a neat construct for volume-relative symlinks that magically
> point to some path rooted at the CD-ROM moint point)

Note that these two features were deleted from the RRIP specification when
it got to be the IEEE P1282 draft.
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