On 04/18/2010 08:17 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sat, 2010-04-17 at 16:35 -0700, Richard England wrote: > >> Has anyone ever successfully archived all or a portion on their email >> onto a CD or DVD in such a manner that they can mount the media later >> and successfully read from it using Thunderbird? TBird seems to want >> write capability on the media. Any tricks for getting around this?? >> > The write requirement arises because TBird wants to update state > information and indices. > > If you're feeling adventurous, you could possibly do this using union > mounts (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UnionFS). However AFAIK this is > still not supported in the stable kernel tree. > > Alternatively, there might be a way to play tricks with symbolic links > in order to achieve the same effect. Left as an exercise for the > reader :-) > > poc > > One could always use DVD-RAM. :-) -- Unix: Some say the learning curve is steep, but you only have to climb it once. -- Karl Lehenbauer Guess Who! http://tinyurl.com/mc4xe7
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