[Rule-list] Slinky enhancements

Richard Kweskin rkwesk at mail.ariadne-t.gr
Tue Oct 15 22:29:51 EEST 2002


On Wednesday 16 October 2002 12:22 am, Ed Blackman wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 03:03:05PM +0300, Richard Kweskin wrote:
> > Some items for future slinky wish list:
>
> I'm working on a port of the slinky scripts to a more capable
> language, partially to make it easier to add these kinds of things.
>
> > 1 - remote access to multiple cd's (e.g. nfs)
>
> If you're talking about accessing the CDs as ISO images over NFS, this
> is already in the (incomplete) port.  If you're talking about mounting
> a remote CD drive, that shouldn't be hard.
>snip

The script, as of version 0.29, mounts a remote CD drive containing the first 
CD, but does not wait for subsequent mounts. When doing this manually, if 
memory serves, nfs umounting seemed problematic, and a second cd drive was 
used as a workaround.

Richard


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