Unionfs for Linux?

Lukey Boy asks: "A machine in my network is currently a large fileserver, and holds many hard disks full of media (namely my music and what not). Each drive is running a standard EXT3 filesystem with the same layout (/media, /media/mp3, and so on). My problem and question is how do I join these drives to look like a single hierarchy? I would like to, when I check /all/mp3, view the contents of each drive in this combined directory. FreeBSD has a unionfs filesystem type which supports the unioning of two drives - but only two is a fairly bad limitation, especially when I add a new drive. It appears that Al Viro is working on a unionfs for Linux 2.5, with again only two mount points supported. I was also considering using the Linux Volume Manager system, or possibly a software RAID striping arrangement; does anyone have any experiences doing anything similiar? Is there any decent inheritable filesystem (IFS) available for Unix machines?"

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[austad]

When OSX 10.3 is released next year, it's supposed to include vorbis support. Around the same time, the iPod is supposed to get some "enhanced" software that will allow it to play more formats. Could this be the first portable vorbis player?