Morgan Storey <[email protected]> writes:
I bet the "manual" part of that synchronization doesn't win any points with
the users. :)
Daniel
> I know it is a bit un-maintained but what about Unison
>
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> 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/
>>
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