[CentOS] CD emulation (a la daemontools)

Wed Oct 10 21:29:09 UTC 2007
Miark <mlist at gardnerbusiness.com>

On Tue, 09 Oct 2007 15:09:17 -0400, Chris wrote:

> I was wondering if anyone was aware of a method for mounting
> virtual CD devices with CD image files.  I keep images
> (.CUE/.BIN pairs) of my CD collection on a NAS appliance
> tucked away in my closet.  I'd like to write a script to mount
> each one, create ID tags, rip the tracks, then move along to
> the next one.  I figure with a quad core opteron, it should be
> able to crank through them in a few days (it's a few thousand
> CD's worth of images).  Anyone done this before with their
> trusty CentOS box?  I'd be using CentOS 5.

Off the top of my head, I'd bchunk them into ISO images, then
mount them with "-o loop". But it would be nice to skip
bchunking them, such as with CDemu.

Miark