Subject: Re: maintaining many Xen VMs
To: None <port-xen@NetBSD.org>
From: Paul Ripke <stix@stix.id.au>
List: port-xen
Date: 10/22/2006 23:13:00
On Sat, Oct 21, 2006 at 10:38:35PM +0200, Johan Ihren wrote:
> 
> >Another option to keep in mind is 'vfs.generic.magiclinks=1',
> >enabling system-specific copies of system config files. After working
> >with a Tru64 cluster at work, I can see lots of practical uses. Eg.
> >I'm using it for system-specific .screenrc in an NFS mounted home
> >directory:
> 
> Wow. Very interesting. But my 3.0-STABLE systems don't seem to have  
> any magic symlinks and googling a bit doesn't give much information  
> either. Is this integrated in -current (which I don't have a system  
> running right now) or is hidden elsewhere?

Looks like it's in the netbsd-4 branch and current, only. See
http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?symlink+7+NetBSD-current
for info on what's implemented.

Cheers,
-- 
Paul Ripke
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