On Friday 25 April 2008, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > Chris wrote: > > that seems like a nice approach. Why do I need to touch the SENTINEL > > file? > > > > C > > Chris, > > in the example, you touch the file ONCE to make it exist. Then when you > mount music, it will "mask" the file. That file will only show up when > your smb mount for music is not mounted. Try it. > > When you make a file in a dir /tmp/test then mount something in > /tmp/test the contents of /tmp/test will only show the mounted files. > When you unmount /tmp/test the original file will still be there. > > I think this is a rather elegant approach independent of networking. If > networking is down, you will see the "touched" file. If networking is > up and smb/CIF is working, you will not see it. The "touched" file will > not be overwritten by your file moving/deletion/backups/restores. > > Does that help?
Yes! Thank you very much! > > -- > Damon L. Chesser > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser -- C. Hurschler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
