you are right : ) in theory, widelinks could be greatly used to transparently make a user mount /vol/vol0/a_dir to /vol/vol1/another_dir but - widelinks is resered for cifs - and there is some problem to make them work as the documentation explain it I only succed in with using the /etc/symlink.translation file also, some related bug has been corrected in earlier version, so one should keep in mind widelinks are not always working great and should open a case with Netapp in order to make them work the way you want

Carolyn S. Chambers wrote:

What about wide symbolic links?

-----Original Message----- From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Stephane Bentebba Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 3:36 AM Cc: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Re: F760 question - two volume, one mount point

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If we have hit a filesystem size, then we'll probable have to create a new volume (which we'd prefer not to do). However, if we do have to do this, any suggestions on how to make the new volume appear to simply look like part of the other exported filesystem?

I think latest Ontapp version propose the possibility to "map" mount point with some syntax like this :

exportfs -o actual=/vol/vfilers/vf19,rw=pets,root=workers \ /vol/vol9/vf19

check here the man page of the export : http://now.netapp.com/AskNOW/highlight_html.jsp?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnow.net app.com%2FNOW%2Fknowledge%2Fdocs%2Fontap%2Frel65%2Fhtml%2Fontap%2Fcmdref %2Fman1%2Fna_exportfs.1.html&sentenceId=7702847&titleIds=7702834#sect3

unfortunately, this mechanism permit you to redirect a mount point like filer:/vol/vol0/a_dir to filer:/vol/vol1/same_dir but can't permit you to extend filer:/vol/vol0/this_dir to filer:/vol/vol0/that_dir

furthurmore, this is for nfs, i am not sure it is available for cifs

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