Merging Folders into a read only aggregate? WS2008

Demon

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I don't think it's possible, because google is coming up short..

Simplistically I want to be able to Merge the contents of 2 or more folders into a single SMB Share (read-only is fine), It's to tide me over with my existing BR/HD-DVD collection which is organised as follows

Disk1\Movies\MovieA\MovieA.mkv
Disk1\Movies\MovieB\MovieB.mkv
Disk2\Movies\MovieC\MovieC.mkv
Disk2\Movies\MovieD\MovieD.mkv

What I want is a single Folder/Share that can aggregate these such that

I did once in the past use Junction Points on a common 'Movies' Folder that linked each "MovieX" folder from each disk, the downside was, everytime I added a Movie, I'd have to add a new junction point..

Maybe that is the fall back solution, I'll write a small app to monitor the folders, and auto-maintain the junctions/symlinks in the aggregated 'view' folder?
 
There is no easy solution, well not yet!

I'm going to go back to the old days of using Junctions, and create 1 top level Movies directory, then I'll write an app to go through multiple 'movie' folders accross various drives and just auto create Junctions to each Movie folder in the top level folder.. I'll get it to monitor changes to the directories so it can auto-update the junctions should it need to..

I've tried it manually with a couple of folders and it seems to work as expected. I have all my media in individual folders, e.g. \MovieName\MovieFile.mkv..

e.g. If I have 2 Source Movie Folders on Disks 1/2 and I want to create an aggregated view of Movies on Disk0..

Disk0\Movies (This will have all the junctions in, and be shared via SMB)
Disk0\Movies\MovieNameA\ -> Junctioned to Disk 1\Movies\MovieNameA\
Disk0\Movies\MovieNameB\ -> Junctioned to Disk 2\Movies\MovieNameB\
..
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