Jim -
I just recently reviewed some CD jukebox specs. I don't have the complete story
but I can tell you what I remember.
Some jukeboxes act as network file servers, using SMB, NFS, or Appleshare; these
can be pretty much OS-independent. They offer a choice of making each CD appear
as a separate share or as folders within a single share. Some are Web-manageable,
some have a real hard disk drive inside to act as a cache.
FWIW, IMHO, I've never been a fan of jukeboxes. I'm sure there are real-world
applications where they make sense, but I keep wanting to turn to good ol' disk
space to make CD-ROM content shareable on a network. If you use an NFS server to
do pretty much the same thing you describe doing with a jukebox, you can make a
mount point underneath /var just like you planned.
- Jeff
Jim Popovitch wrote:
> A customer of ours is considering using MySQL to archive events from a
> network monitoring system. These events form a timeline of everything that
> occurs on their WAN. The quantity of events could reach 15-20 thousand per
> day, about 15 megs of data. The current thinking is for each month's data
> to be a seperate database (filesystem directory) which would one day be
> archived to CD. At any one time MySQL could have twelve 500+ meg databases
> open. Does this sound OK?
>
> In the near future the customer would purchase a CD-ROM jukebox and use it
> to provide easy access to archived data. The desire here is to virtually
> mount the CDs on the jukebox as subdirectories in /var/lib/mysql/ providing
> the capabilities such as searching for all router failures on a given device
> within the past. Does anyone here have any experience with CD jukeboxes on
> Linux? Does the above seem logical?
>
> -Jim P.
>
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