Yes, mhddfs was just my last application of the principle. It is a bit scary, but harmless in read-only mode (anyway in write mode it fills drives first to last, that's not always adequate.)
Anyway, what I'd do personally in this case is have a script check the presence of the UUID, and then do the mount. Kind of what your script does already. The system would not hang. In addition, if the /etc/init.d script to start/stop SBS was a symlink to a script on the drive (on a know mountpoint), then SBS would not be started when the device is missing, as it would be a dangling link. (or you can raise some flag when the mount was done.) Maybe there is another way, using udev and/or autofs to really "automount" the drive, and leave fstab alone ? (I have used both, and posted about it in the forums some time ago.) -- epoch1970 Daily dose delivered by: 2 SB Classic (fw 130), 1 SB Boom (fw 50) SqueezeCenter 7.3.4 (Debian 5.0) with plugins: ContextMenu, SaverSwitcher by Peter Watkins Server Power Control by Gordon Harris WeatherTime by Martin Rehfeld IRBlaster by Gwendesign (Felix) FindArt, CDplayer by bpa BBC iPlayer, SwitchPlayer by Triode PowerSave by Jason Holtzapple TrackStat by Erland Isaksson. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ epoch1970's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16711 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=79161
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