Yeah, I already thought something like that. Unfortunately these comment threads rarely have people clearing it up.
Anyone here with a reddit account who's up for keeping an eye on these things from time to time? (I'm doing that on Hacker News for example.) Am 28.07.2014 12:43 schrieb Klaas Freitag <[email protected]>: > > On 28.07.2014 11:48, Jan-Christoph Borchardt wrote: > > I’m at GUADEC (the GNOME conference) at the moment and someone pointed > > me to this reddit thread on the ownCloud 7 release: > > http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/2biaeh/owncloud_7_released/cj5n5bq > > > > The main comment says: > > > >> It still needs a proper syncing daemon on a server. Having the client > > machine handle all of the syncing isn't good for performance. I was > > using Owncloud 5 and I remember trying to sync a computer with about > > 60-100 GB worth of iPhone pictures stored on a Windows machine (Don't > > kill me, this was a friends computer). The whole process hung 20 gigs > > in, couldn't index any more than that, and the entire process took all > > of the life out of my friends laptop. > > This is, sorry to say that, not hitting the point. No, we do not need a > syncing daemon, ownCloud has a different architecture currently, and I > do not see how a daemon would benefit us at all. Also, it makes sense to > put computing tasks on clients rather than on servers, very generally > spoken, guess why JS is cool nowadays? > > What he might mean is that we could improve the "protocol" between > client and server to improve performance, and we did a lot compared to > oC 5 and its sync clients. And we will do more over time of course. > > It would be helpful if people would use their time and energy to ask > concrete questions and make kind of thought through proposals. And care > to update to take advantage of improvements :-D > > regards, > Klaas > > > > -- > ownCloud GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, Holger Dyroff, Frank Karlitschek > Schloßäckerstrasse 26a, 90443 Nürnberg, HRB 28050 (AG Nürnberg) > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.owncloud.org/mailman/listinfo/devel _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.owncloud.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
