topic Re: Soft link to a mount point in Operating System - HP-UX

Soft link to a mount point

uadm26 — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 16:57:37 GMT

Hi, guys
I have an issue about using soft link to a filesystem. That option can decrease performance?
I use that choice instead of change filesystem's name.
JT

Re: Soft link to a mount point

Michael Steele_2 — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 17:36:23 GMT

I'm not sure if you can use a mountpoint to a softlink since all mountpoints exist in /etc/fstab and /etc/mountab. So experiment and reboot to see if it takes.

As for performance issues, I've never seen any performance problems using softlinks except with nfs file systems.

Re: Soft link to a mount point

likid0 — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 17:40:05 GMT

Soft links dont affect performance, because its
only a pointer to the inode