Re: [9fans] cdrom floppy tape etc, media mount point

[Ben <cellctl@lycos.com>]

>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.
>

Care to share your code with us?