[lug] JBOD File Browser?

John Hernandez jph at jph.net
Fri Sep 16 13:05:16 MDT 2011


Lori, check out UnionFS.  It sounds like it might do what you need at the
filesystem layer rather than the browser application.  I don't know how it
would handle naming conflicts or other potential pitfalls.

http://www.filesystems.org/project-unionfs.html

On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 11:58 AM, Lori Reed <lorireed at lightning-rose.com>wrote:

> Has anyone run across a file browser that could treat two or more drives
> (mount points, actually) as a single entity similar to JBOD but
> guaranteeing that no single file will ever span drives?
>
> Or how about software that would allow two or more external drives to be
> mounted with a single mount point in a JBOD fashion?
>
> Either nothing like that currently exists, or my Google-Fu has failed
> completely.
>
> I have need of and am considering writing such a file browser, but I'm
> not sure I'm all that ambitious at the moment.
>
> Lori
>
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