Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Tim Watts Newsgroups: uk.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,uk.d-i-y Subject: Re: Opensource slowing down? "GoogleDrive" private cloud Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2015 14:32:04 +0000 Lines: 29 Message-ID: <4khjsb-2oj.ln1@squidward.dionic.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net ZKjFM4S1ncY2Sq//xFM/ww5FTtNRgsYN7ngEEeuChITTHeHctH X-Orig-Path: squidward.dionic.net!not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:wNHXzNWHhnwjB8BBAZP2eAPrT2U= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.4.0 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:13873 On 04/03/15 14:15, Jeroen Belleman wrote: > Bah. Linux and Unix have all sorts of remote/shared filesystems. > Of course, some 'creative' minds thought it'd be a good idea to > invent yet another such thing. That's the bane of computing. It's > so often easier to reinvent something than it is to find out how > to use the existing tricks. OK - tell me one that works well with Android, Chromebooks with a semi-connected internet? Because that's what I want. And I have not found any. SMB - no chance NFS - not the slightest bit suitable OpenAFS - the right logic is there but no client support Most of the cloud-fs solutions seem to hang around WebDAV - but probably augmented with update hints to aid caching and push delivery of updates. It is a specialist network filesystem - that is for sure. It strikes me as strange that there are 101 commercial suppliers (Dropbox, Google, Evernote, Spideroak...) and yet no one has come up with a nice well defined open protocol that addresses replication and syncing.