[GRLUG] NFS and Symlinks

[zdennis]

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Roberto Villarreal wrote:
> Not sure exactly what you are trying to accomplish... without knowing your 
> intentions, I would think it'd be cleaner to move your data outside the tree 
> anyway, and symlink from the data directory to the mountpoint.  That way, if 
> you decided to use app-1.0 instead of 1.2, it'd just be a matter of changing 
> the symlink from the 1.0 data directory to point to your mount, instead of 
> remounting the volume...

Mr. Villarreal...  I concur, it would be best to move data outside of directory. My exact problem currently lies int he fact that
I have a line /etc/fstab that states my mountpoint is:

   /opt/mydir/mydir/mount_point

and /opt/mydir is really a symlink to /opt/mydir-1.3. But when I try to mount the path gets expanded from symlink to the real
path, and I get permissions error on mounting. When I update myapp-1.3 I would love to just unmount, create new symlink, and remount.

Since I have hit this is this an intended feature of NFS mounts (or mounting in general) or is it user error?

Zach

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