Symlinks & NFS

[Samuel Flory]

Thomas wrote:
> I was soo happy when i got my first NFS share mounted.
> Then it took me some minutes to unwhirl my synapses to conclude that the 
> symlink data -> /mnt/data inside the newly mounted nfs share now pointed 
> to my local /mnt/data. It caused a quite funny effect in a shellscript. :-}
> 
> Samba resolves symlinks transparent, is there a way to get nfs resolve 
> symlinks as well?
> 


   Not to my knowledge.  You should always use relative symlinks instead 
of absolute links.


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