Wouldn't it be possible to have the player NFS mount /drive0 and /drive1 from a large partition on a server somewhere else?

I realize that this would require using emplode/jemplode to load the files to the player (which would then store them on the NFS partitions on the server), but it would be possible to have quite a large music store this way, woudn't it? The internal disk(s) could be used for whatever extra swap would be required.

Would it be possible, on startup, to check for the NFS partition on the network, and, if present, mount it instead of the empeg's hard disk partitions?

It would be cool to do this: when docked, the player starts and attempts to mount /drive? via NFS. If successful, it doesn't mount the internal drives but allocates more swap. If it can't find the NFS shares, it does a regular boot.

That way, when the player is in the dock, it mounts the huge collection over the network. When not in the dock, it uses the internal drives.

Does the dynamic partition make this impossible? Could one "build" a remote (NFS) collection of partitions for home use, including an NFS read/write dynamic partition?

Am I making any sense at all? (it's quite late...)

Jim