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From: Sam <sah@softcardsystems.com>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] cdrom floppy tape etc, media mount point
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Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 12:02:46 -0400
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I'll second this.  Very neat.

On Mon, 15 Jul 2002 rog@vitanuova.com wrote:

> > >The /n vs /mnt thing is just a convention.
> >
> > Yes, I know it.  However, it's not easy to explain this to my naive
> > students.
> > You, probably  many others?, don't want to have many directory
> > in /, don't you?
>
> personally, i'd like to get rid of /mnt entirely.  i much prefer it
> when things are in /n, mainly because it's so much easier to type!
>
> i recently knocked up a little filesystem as in inferno as an
> experiment (it was actually to test a new library interface), which
> acts as a kind of auto mountpoint directory.
>
> in this directory, a walk to any name will succeed, and will walk to
> an empty directory of that name.  a read of the original will now show
> the new name.
>
> 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).
>
> 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).
>
>   cheers,
>     rog.
>