Re: hundreds of mount --bind mountpoints?

Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Mon, 23 Apr 2001 10:14:19 -0400 (EDT)


On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, David L. Parsley wrote:

> What I'm not sure of is which solution is actually 'better' - I'm
> guessing that performance-wise, neither will make a noticable
> difference, so I guess memory usage would be the deciding factor. If I

Bindings are faster on lookup. For obvious reasons - in case of symlinks
you do name resolution every time you traverse the link; in case of
bindings it is done when you create them.

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