[ILUG] a first pass at a virtual cd jukebox...

[Paul Jakma]

On Mon, 19 Sep 2005, kevin lyda wrote:

> on #linux there were some other suggestions.  the --ghost option 
> and the use of hotplug.  perhaps more detail on those ideas might 
> be handy to others?

Ghost can only work on static maps, so it won't work for your 
programme map.

Your solution is pretty much the nicest way to do it dynamically, 
though I'd suggest it might be better to have a script to build a 
static file map, rather than as an autofs programme map. You have to 
manually initiate link update anyway, so running a script (or running 
it regularly from cron) to rebuild (if required) /etc/auto.jukebox 
would do just as well. Then --ghost would work, and you'd have no 
need for these oddball symlink directores ;).

> kevin

regards,
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