[Novalug] best hard disk setup for home file server?

[Bryan J. Smith]

Interesting approach. 


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From: James Ewing Cottrell 3rd <JECottrell3 at comcast.net>

Of course they are viable. Consider two movies, The_Hustler and Cool_Hand_Luke. Now I can't get to IMDB, so I am going to make a wild guess that that the former came out in 1962 and the latter in 1967. Furthermore, I'm making the rediculous assertion that TH was directed by Stanley Kubrick and the latter by George Lucas.

We have 10 partitions, /data[0-9]. Consider the following:

/data0/The_Hustler
/data1/Cool_Hand_Luke
/data2/The_Shining
/data3/Star_Wars
/data4/2001

/movies/year/1962/The_Hustler -> /data0/The_Hustler
/movies/year/1967/Cool_Hand_Luke -> /data1/Cool_Hand_Luke
/movies/year/1969/2001 -> /data4/2001
/movies/year/1977/Star_Wars -> /data3/Star_Wars

/movies/director/George Lucas/Cool_Hand_Luke -> /data1/Cool_Hand_Luke
/movies/director/George Lucas/Star_Wars -> /data3/Star_Wars
/movies/director/Stanley_Kubrick/2001 -> /data4/2001
/movies/director/Stanley_Kubrick/The_Hustler -> /data0/The_Hustler

/movies/actor/George_C_Scott/The_Hustler -> /data0/The_Hustler
/movies/actor/Paul_Newman/The_Hustler -> /data0/The_Hustler
/movies/actor/Paul_Newman/Cool_Hand_Luke -> /data1/Cool_Hand_Luke
/movies/actor/Darth_H_Gates_III/Star_Wars -> /data3/Star_Wars

For each movie, you could build a MetaFile you can generate the symbolic links from. The_Hustler.txt might have

Name: The_Hustler
Year: 1962
Director: Stanley_Kubrick
Actor: Paul Newman
Actor: George_C_Scott

I probably should have thrown Dr. Strangelove in there too. But you get the idea.

You could build a Poor Man's Dedup this way too.