Intermediate disk?

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  • ismith

    This is on OS X by the way... is there any sort of filesystem (think MacFUSE perhaps?) or app that will give a virtual "intermediate disk? What I mean by this is like a virtual disk image that acts as a middleman between my laptop and external HD– what I want it to do is copy all the files being accessed from the external onto this virtual disk (which is contained by my internal HD) basically so that I can eject my external without shutting down Transmission or Cog (which accesses my music directly from my external).

    The reason it's so annoying is because I'm seeding a good 1500 torrents or so in Transmission so while I could pause them all, it would take a while, lock up Transmission, and I'd have restart all of them and then pause the few I want to remain paused. Also I only have several albums in my playlist at a time, but I want them to be automatically stored in a temporary directory on my internal drive so I can just unplug and go with whatever's already loaded up.

    I know it's a little weird, but it just seems like something MacFuse would be perfect for. Also, there are no plans to support features for externals in Transmission or Cog and no other apps are efficient enough to replace them for me.

  • e-pill0

    can you upload to a server somewhere?
    maybe your own website or something??

    • we're talking about a terabyte of stuff and frequent updates, so online unfortunately isn't really practicalismith
    • a terabyte of virtual memory??
      what ju smokin??
      e-pill
    • haha nothing (yet) I'm just thinking like 5GB to load the files currently being accessed by appsismith
  • ismith0

    Bumpers.

  • inkpink0

    mac mini

  • inkpink0

    and yeah you're scenario is tres weird. seems like you're totally over-thinking it. can't really wrap my head around what you're trying to do.

    • your / you're
      inkpink
    • it's actually incredibly simple, I'm just having trouble finding anyone who's cared to solve itismith
    • I'll explain better below (hopefully)ismith
  • scarabin0

    i'm super crazy high right now and not sure i get your question, but i have a dedicated downloads-only internal HD that runs torrents all day long so it doesn't interfere with the primary internal HD that my apps run on (saves wear and tear, and if that drive fails i don't lose any important data). every once in a while i'll move finished downloads onto a dedicated external HD that only holds media.

    the external you can unplug and stuff without affecting downloads or apps...

    make sense? (or help?)

    • works for mescarabin
    • see below
      vvvvv
      ismith
    • this works if I stop seeding some stuff, but I like to seed eeeevrythingismith
    • a lot of it I'm the only seeder, but I can't just pick and choose because my internal hd can't hold much more and there are almost 2k foldersismith
    • almost 2k folders. i.e. too much of a pain to organize for meismith
  • johndiggity0

    maybe set up a partition on you main drive and use folder shortcuts to access the external drive's data?

    • this is close, but I'd also like it to copy the data from those folders being accessed by the computer (onto the partition)ismith
  • ismith0

    Say I have Cog open– 50 songs or so. If I hit "Eject Lacie HD," a window comes up that says it can't do this because Cog is currently accessing these 50 files.

    What I want it to do is when Cog loads these files for it to copy all of them to a separate folder or virtual disk that's stored on my internal HD. So when I hit eject Lacie HD it will do so and I can continue listening to my music. Cog will think it's still connected to those files on Lacie HD but they're actually on Virtual Disk 1 or whatever when I unplug it.

  • ismith0

    I the case of Transmission, I'd like it to remain open so I can still download stuff to my internal HD, but when they're complete and I reconnect to my external it should copy them over and resume seeding everything on my external.