Subject: Re: "Unix" convention?
To: Michael Parson <mparson@bl.org>
From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 09/02/2005 19:55:18
On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 09:21:18AM -0500, Michael Parson wrote:
> 
> Some people do this by mounting everything under /.vol01, /.vol02, etc,
> then making symbolic links pointing to these mount where they want them:

Better is to put all of the mount points in a subdirectory of / (eg /mnt).
This is useful because, in some conditions, getcwd() has to stat all the
entries in a directory.  If one of the entries is a nfs mount point and
the target machine is slow or inaccessible then the getcwd() call will
stall.

	David

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