On Fri, 2012-05-25 at 07:11 -0500, Nick Daly wrote: > So, we've had many requests for a functional-replacement for DropBox. > Last night, I might've figured out a way to leverage existing tools to > do this pretty easily. It needs more thought, and maybe there are > better ways to do this, but that's what this email thread is all about. > If we get a working proposal, somebody (or a group of somebodies) can > run with it during the hackfest, or even before then. > > Dropbox is nothing more than a synced folder, from what I understand. > We have a lot of tools to synchronize folders. We have fewer tools to > do this magically, in the background. A shared-drive wouldn't work, > there's no guarantee you're always connected. This actually looks > like a really similar problem to distributed-revision control. > > So, if the FBX is the central (always updated) DVCS server, this > becomes pretty easy: just make your DropBox folder a repository and > push to the server when you change files. Nice, but not very > automatic. This is where the neatest Mercurial (or Git/Bzr/Mtn) > Extension ever comes into play: inotify [0]. > > inotify notifies the repository whenever files are changed. If you > react to that notification by adding new files, committing changes, > and pushing out to the remote repository (say, every 5 minutes or so), > then you've just built DropBox. Oddly, though, it's better: since > it's a repository, sharing the repository with other folks will no > longer hose everything if they move stuff around or delete things; you > can always recover it from previous revisions. > > Can anyone look into making a script that reacts to the inotify events > and another script that correctly configures a folder to be that sort > of repository? The second script is probably easier, it just needs to > call out ho the inotify extension and the other script.
Isn't that the exact same concept as sparkleshare ? [http://www.sparkleshare.org] It is based on git and the client is multi-platform (it uses inotify on Linux). -- mirsal
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