Data on Mount Points
Mount points are a subset of NTFS5 reparse point functionality, which allows you to connect a volume at a mount point directory within a parent volume without having to assign a drive letter to that volume. As a result, you can consolidate multiple volumes under one drive letter. A typical use for mount points is in very large Exchange Server deployments that call for fast recovery times. In these deployments, it is common practice to place each database and transaction log pair on its own set of logical unit numbers (LUNs). For example, with an Exchange Server 2007 mailbox server, there can be a maximum of 50 storage groups and each storage group would have its own transaction log LUN and database LUN. In these cases, the ...
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