[646] in athena10
Re: attach -e
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Tue Dec 2 15:47:44 2008
Cc: athena10@mit.edu
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From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Price <price@mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20081202203823.GD10836@vinegar-pot.mit.edu>
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Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 15:46:59 -0500
On Dec 2, 2008, at 3:38 PM, Greg Price wrote:
> Perhaps I'm missing something, but this is equivalent to an
> ln -s ; aklog, right? So if I were attaching RW volumes, I'd just
> symlink the volume into /mit on a single-user machine, or some other
> location on a public machine. Is there another reason that makes this
> compelling as a special feature of attach?
Yes, because it puts it under the /mit mountpoint. That way, you can
run software out of an RW volume. If you attach it somewhere else,
the software will still refer to /mit/whatever and you'll get the RO
version, not the RW one.
-Jon
