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From: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 13:34:24 -0500
To: "Parker, Ron" <rdparker AT butlermfg DOT org>
Cc: "'cygwin-developers AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com'" <cygwin-developers AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>,
        Egor Duda <deo AT logos-m DOT ru>
Subject: Re: FS layout issues for v1.1 (eg., /bin and /usr/bin)
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In-Reply-To: <200002291744.JAA18000@cygnus.com>; from rdparker@butlermfg.org on Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 11:43:21AM -0600

On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 11:43:21AM -0600, Parker, Ron wrote:
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Egor Duda [mailto:deo AT logos-m DOT ru]
>Sent: Tuesday, February 29, 2000 1:37 AM
>To: cygwin-developers AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; Mumit Khan
>Subject: Re: FS layout issues for v1.1 (eg., /bin and /usr/bin)
>
><snip>
>
>> 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

There are no side effects.  The biggest problem is "user confusion".  It's pretty
obvious what's going on when you do a "ls -l /usr".  It's not so obvious when
you are using mounts.

Someone mentioned that symlinks might be slow on network drives.  I'm not worried
about that.  The problem is that symlinks *may not work* on network drives.

That may blow the symlink idea out of the water, unfortunately.

cgf