I know it is a bit un-maintained but what about Unison -- Regards Morgan Storey
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 4:14 PM, Daniel Pittman <[email protected]> wrote: > Jake Anderson <[email protected]> writes: > > On 15/07/10 14:10, Matthew Hannigan wrote: > >> On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 04:06:17PM +1000, Peter Chubb wrote: > >> > >>> You could do this with inotify, with `just a few' scripts around it. > >>> > >> Related: http://code.google.com/p/lsyncd/ drives rsyncing with inotify. > > > > Actually that looks like a fairly handy tool, I have been trying to work > out > > the best way of keeping files in two offices in sync and drbd seemed like > > overkill > > Keep in mind that using rsync like that has absolutely *zero* conflict > resolution support, so you are inviting the data-loss fairy to visit when > there are concurrent modifications. > > DRBD, meanwhile, is useless without a cluster file-system on top of it, > since > you otherwise can't mount the data at both sites at the same time. > > > Sadly, I can't right now advise a better solution than these, however, > since > it is the main problem I face in trying to bridge two data-centers and > provide > coherent and sensible file access. > > The best I can offer, right now, is xtreemfs[1] which will give you fair > performance but no local caching, so no disconnected operation. > > Regards, > Daniel > > Footnotes: > [1] http://www.xtreemfs.org/ > > -- > ✣ Daniel Pittman ✉ [email protected] ☎ +61 401 155 > 707 > ♽ made with 100 percent post-consumer electrons > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
