IHAC that is migrating off NetApp to Isilon however they will need to maintain the same export paths from a workflow prospective.  They have too many legacy applications, scripts, etc that have dependencies on the legacy paths.  Trying to change the applications, etc would be too painful and hard to do.  With their NetApp they used the export alias feature.  Does anyone have ideas on how to achieve the same thing?

The partner we are working with suggested manually creating symlinks on nodes and export it.  Initial testing seems to show it works but would it be supported?

example:

1.     Create a symlink on the node in question: /data  -> /ifs/data

·       isilon-1# cd /; ln -s /ifs/data

2.     Export the symlink

·       isilon-1# isi nfs exports create /data

3.     Mount the symlink from a host

·       ubuntu# mkdir /data; mount –t nfs Isilon-1:/data /data

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