From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lucio De Re To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] cdrom floppy tape etc, media mount point Message-ID: <20020715185257.D9944@cackle.proxima.alt.za> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: ; from rog@vitanuova.com on Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 05:45:38PM +0100 Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 18:52:57 +0200 Topicbox-Message-UUID: cc6eb69a-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 05:45:38PM +0100, rog@vitanuova.com wrote: > > thus, having done: > > autodir /n > > you can do, say: > > mount /srv/factotum /n/bletheridoo > > and it will work - the destination mount point is created on demand > (and deleted when there are no more references to it). > This ceryainly has _my_ vote. > i haven't used it in earnest, but it always seemed a bit unnatural > to have to pre-create mount points for all future services; > perhaps there's a place for something like this under plan 9? > (it's only a couple of hours work). > Brilliant, if only because I was considering the problem and didn't have the perspicacity to see such an elegant solution! ++L