Editing Root directory (section)

===Super-root===
{{See also|Newcastle Connection}}

Some Unix systems support a directory below the root directory. Normally, "/.." points back to the same [[inode]] as "/", however, under {{Interlanguage link multi|MUNIX|de}}, this can be changed to point to a super-root directory, where remote trees can be mounted.<ref name="Newcastle_1982">{{cite journal |title=The Newcastle Connection |author-last1=Brownbridge |author-first1=David R. |author-last2=Marshall |author-first2=Lindsay F. |author-last3=Randell |author-first3=Brian |author-link3=Brian Randell |journal=Software: Practice and Experience |volume=12 |year=1982 |doi=10.1002/spe.4380121206 |pages=1147–1162 |s2cid=1840438 |url=http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/publications/articles/papers/399.pdf |access-date=2016-08-16 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160816184205/http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/research/pubs/articles/papers/399.pdf |archive-date=2016-08-16 }}</ref><ref name="Callaghan_2000">{{cite book |author-last=Callaghan |author-first=Brent |title=NFS Illustrated |publisher=[[Addison Wesley]] |year=2000 |isbn=0-201-32570-5}}</ref>  If, for example, two workstations "pcs2a" and "pcs2b" were connected via "connectnodes" and "uunite" startup script, "/../pcs2b" could be used to access the root directory of "pcs2b" from "pcs2a".