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Cc: Egor Duda <deo AT logos-m DOT ru>
Subject: RE: FS layout issues for v1.1 (eg., /bin and /usr/bin)
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 11:43:21 -0600
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-----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

<snip>