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create the "poor man raid" folder, wich contains the folder structure. The contant will be mounted using bindings in the fstab.

lets assume the following structure:

• /hdd1/Serien/Dexter/
• - /hdd1/Serien/Dexter/Season01
• - /hdd1/Serien/Dexter/Season02
• /hdd1/Serien/Suits/
• • /hdd1/Serien/Suits/Season01
• /hdd2/Serien/Suits/
• - /hdd1/Serien/Suits/Season02

Then the "poor men raid" folder should look like this:

• /poor-men-raid/Dexter/Season01 -> /hdd1/Serien/Dexter/Season01
• /poor-men-raid/Dexter/Season01 -> /hdd1/Serien/Dexter/Season01
• /poor-men-raid/Suits/Season01 -> /hdd1/Serien/Suits/Season01
• /poor-men-raid/Suits/Season02 -> /hdd2/Serien/Suits/Season02

in order to prevent system boot failure caused by a invalid fstab, we will create a new version conainting all the poormanraid entries after boot. then mount -a is called to apply these changes and revert the fstab its boot version.
This is probably done best using an init script.

Crate a mechanism that manages a config file.

Such a file should contain a list of source folder to look for media contant
and one folder that is the "poor men raid" folder containing links to all the media in the source folders.

In order to make usability of such a system easy we should provide the following scripts:

disk-butter-config add source-folder
disk-butter-config remove source-folder
disk-butter-config set destination-folder

based on the folder description in #9, fstab entries have to be created.

In case a season is splited across two or more source folders, move all episodes to one folder that has enough space.

Instead of implementing a raid using symlinks, we could use FUSE and its python bindings
to implement a file system in user space that effectively merge multiple mount points into one logical view without imposing its own file system.

http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/fuse/index.php?title=FUSE_Python_tutorial

Reads the folder names from source directory and creates empty folder in the destionen folder.

Please provide a cli ( command line interface ) option to specify a list of special folder ( currently hard coded as 'Serien' ).

When a new hdd is added to the pool it should contain the same folder structure AND symlinks to all the old files on the old drive.
This way the new hdd would appear to contain all the content, while in fact all the old files remain at the old disk.

The benefit is a logical view on the data more or less independent on the actual storage location.

The PoorManRaid folder has to be read only. This will cause problems with applications like sickbeard, wich automaticly create folder for series and seasons.

We need to find a solution for this, otherwise the poormanraid idea is worthless.

we need to know wich content is identical and wich is different, and where differences are located.

Creates the following default folders:

• Serien
• Movies
• Music
• ...