Roger Critchlow wrote: > unison has always been good to me when synchronizing between Windows and > Linux, http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/, and I see it's > available for OSX, too. But the problem is always getting a bit tired > of waiting for the synchronization to complete when I'm in a hurry, so I > don't do it. I'm using rsync onto a usb laptop drive for some purposes > these days, but even then the time involved is a bit tiresome, and the > possibility of getting mis-synchronized (ie, overwriting a newer file by > accident) is present.
I tried various synchronization schemes between my Powerbook and both Linux and Windows boxen. My goal was to have a USB drive I could plug into any of my computers and start working. I have never achieved that goal. One thing I found irritating was OS X', apparently deliberate, inability to write correctly to other file systems. NTFS supports file creation, modification, POSIX change, and POSIX access date/time stamps, but every time I copied my home directory from OS X to an NTFS removable drive, all files had that date/time for all dates. That made it impossible to use my Lacie drive as my home directory on all systems. As for Linux, OS X refused to interact with anything Linux without 3rd party help. I didn't have time to make it work. I just checked and the Apple site has no information through search under support on linux file systems or Ext3. The whole area of synchronizing my work to make it available on multiple systems is one in which OS X has failed me. -- Ray Parks [EMAIL PROTECTED] IDART Project Lead Voice:505-844-4024 IORTA Department Mobile:505-238-9359 http://www.sandia.gov/scada Fax:505-844-9641 http://www.sandia.gov/idart Pager:800-690-5288 ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
