Re: [fossil-users] Collaborative deployment of Fossil without a server

2015-06-12 Thread Mark
Its not really a shared disk. I described it because what I have in mind is similar to sharing a disk. In practice, the data is stored on the p2p network, spread all over the place. However, each user with access has the option of seeing it appear as a virtual drive - hence like a shared disk.

Re: [fossil-users] Collaborative deployment of Fossil without a server

2015-06-12 Thread Mark
Thanks Richard, this is encouraging. I would appreciate any pointers to relevant documentation on multiple servers accessing a single repo, and the file locking options. I searched the Fossil docs again and didn't find anything on this. Then I'll need to look at what SAFE will support in this

Re: [fossil-users] Collaborative deployment of Fossil without a server

2015-06-12 Thread jungle Boogie
On 12 June 2015 at 13:21, Mark fos...@happybeing.com wrote: Two client machines 1 2, each with a local repo, and each running a Fossil server. Both servers are configured to access a single master repo file that sits on a shared disk, mounted on both machine 1 and machine 2. How will the

Re: [fossil-users] Collaborative deployment of Fossil without a server

2015-06-12 Thread Mark
MaidSafe is the company doing the core development and still hosting the main resource though this will move out to the community properties before long: http://MaidSafe.net There's a lot to access via the above, but two main resources are: Forum: https://forum.safenetwork.io/ (find me there as

Re: [fossil-users] Collaborative deployment of Fossil without a server

2015-06-12 Thread Ron W
On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 2:15 PM, Mark fos...@happybeing.com wrote: no way for remote devices to communicate with a server on another client over HTTP (because this would defeat the security of the network). So SAFE Network does support applications that use TCP ? Fossil's sync protocol

Re: [fossil-users] Collaborative deployment of Fossil without a server

2015-06-12 Thread Mark
On 12/06/15 20:05, Ron W wrote: On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 2:15 PM, Mark fos...@happybeing.com wrote: no way for remote devices to communicate with a server on another client over HTTP (because this would defeat the security of the network). So SAFE Network does support applications that

Re: [fossil-users] Collaborative deployment of Fossil without a server

2015-06-12 Thread Ron W
On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 4:55 PM, Mark fos...@happybeing.com wrote: Its not really a shared disk. I described it because what I have in mind is similar to sharing a disk. In practice, the data is stored on the p2p network, spread all over the place. However, each user with access has the

Re: [fossil-users] Collaborative deployment of Fossil without a server

2015-06-12 Thread Richard Hipp
On 6/12/15, Mark fos...@happybeing.com wrote: I'm thinking it's unlikely that Fossil caters for multiple servers talking to a shared repo file, It does. By default it wants posix advisory locking to work, but that can be hacked around using an environment variable. (I'll have to look up the