Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for advice on shared file system.
On Monday 26 February 2007 19:14, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 26 February 2007, Michal 'vorner' Vaner wrote: Hello, On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 04:54:31PM +, Peter Lewis wrote: I've been looking around for a while now for some sort of shared file system which might meet my needs a little better than that which I am currently using. Maybe coda? Thought I only heard of it, not used. Have a nice day Yeah, that was my first thought as well. Code is marketed as being able to work in a disconnected state. Whatever that means, I'm sure it is good. Thanks guys - I'd not heard of Coda. It looks like it might well do the trick. Cheers, Pete. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Looking for advice on shared file system.
Hi, I've been looking around for a while now for some sort of shared file system which might meet my needs a little better than that which I am currently using. I regularly use two different computers (desktop and laptop) for the same work and have always had a network (samba) drive mounted from a server box in order to be able to have one documents repository for all three machines. This works fine, so long as I am connected to the network (or at a push, the internet via ssh and fuse), but it leaves me at a loss whilst I am working from the laptop and not able to be connected. There is also the added negative point that when I am not on a fast connection, working on a network drive can slow things down quite a bit. For a while, I have been getting around this by using rsync on a seperate directory, which I keep mirrored between all three machines. I have a simple shell script which will check out the files from the server to the local machine and another which will check them back in when I have finished working with them. The basic idea is to use something like rsync -rvzu --delete rest of command This does work, though I have to remember to check them back in before I finish. Once, I forgot and the script deleted all the changes. Also, it is quite inflexible and I just know that I am going to trip up by having various versions of the files on different computers. So... what I am looking for is some kind of file system a bit like IMAP is for mail, which will keep the files synchronised with each other (preferably automatically, or via a cron job or something) but also maintain a local copy of the files so that I can unplug from the network, carry on working and plug back in later - all seamlessly. Does anyone know of anything like this, or can make a recommendation? Alternatively, is it possible to mount a filesystem over a disconnected IMAP connection (perhaps using fuse) in a similar way to with mail? Is this a daft idea? Many thanks, Pete. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for advice on shared file system.
Hello, On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 04:54:31PM +, Peter Lewis wrote: I've been looking around for a while now for some sort of shared file system which might meet my needs a little better than that which I am currently using. Maybe coda? Thought I only heard of it, not used. Have a nice day -- Work with computer has 2 phases. First, computer waits for the user to tell it what to do, then the user waits for the computer to do it. Therefore, computer work consists mostly of waiting. Michal vorner Vaner pgp930lbPrcMq.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for advice on shared file system.
On Monday 26 February 2007, Michal 'vorner' Vaner wrote: Hello, On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 04:54:31PM +, Peter Lewis wrote: I've been looking around for a while now for some sort of shared file system which might meet my needs a little better than that which I am currently using. Maybe coda? Thought I only heard of it, not used. Have a nice day Yeah, that was my first thought as well. Code is marketed as being able to work in a disconnected state. Whatever that means, I'm sure it is good. Other than that, the easiest way will be to work on one machine at a time (that doesn't seem unrealistic from the OP's original mail). Think of the project as if it were a piece of paper, there is only one master copy and only one place changes can be made. I would not use samba for this, I would use nfs as the connection medium. Why? Personal preference really, plus nfs is seamlessly part of the filesystem so writing scripts to sync one set offiles with another is trivial as long as the nfs mount is intact. With one big big proviso: Make sure than your user account has the same uid on all three machines. The write some scripts to rsync data to and from between the current machine and the server. hth alan -- Optimists say the glass is half full, Pessimists say the glass is half empty, Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? Alan McKinnon alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za +27 82, double three seven, one nine three five -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for advice on shared file system.
Peter Lewis schrieb: Hi, I've been looking around for a while now for some sort of shared file system which might meet my needs a little better than that which I am currently using SVN would allow you to transparently check in modifications if mounted correctly, or work offline with a normal checkout. Plus: you get a full history of your work. Minus: you get a full history of your work (space on server) and if it grows to large have to create a new repo/fiddle with svnadmin. Regards, Thomas -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
