[geeks] Dynamic files / filesystems?

[Matthew Braun]

This is still a ways off but I'd like to solicit opinions:

I'm building my multimedia store around a 100Gb drive in a PC to house
primarily my ripped CD collection. I'd like to use FLAC (since I'm more
concerned about quality than space) but my plans still require access to
mp3s. Rather than have 2 duplicate directory trees storing FLAC files in one
and the mp3 version on the other and the subsequent management headaches and
unnecessary space consumption, I was hoping to somehow have a dynamic
filesystem where the mp3 directory tree is but a shadow of the FLAC
filesystem, and all reads of the mp3 version of a song actually trigger a
JIT transform of the underlying FLAC file to mp3.

Now the Mona (Modify-on-Access) filesystem
(http://www.cse.nd.edu/~ssr/projects/mona/) seems to support this, but it
looks like it's a research project and not exactly ready for prime time. Are
there better ways to accomplish the same task?


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