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: Opensource slowing down? "GoogleDrive" private cloud Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2015 13:14:56 +0000 Lines: 42 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net Ft1KdCR73ES8w4YymbnlpQ/QllphqitI/BjSAlVglP7Q60ZwwP X-Orig-Path: squidward.dionic.net!not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:CoVKeVoO8Ys/h4N0vq8kE2vAk+w= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.4.0 Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:13870 I have raised this before... And tried some stuff. And I cannot believe there is no solution... hence the first part of the subject. The problem: "How do I make an existing linux file server be a private cloud file server, targeting other linux, ChromeBooks and Android clients?" There is a LOT of stuff that misses out of critical features - or those features need a paid-for version that costs $1700-9000 per year. I've played with Tonido and OwnCloud so far. Obvious omissions in the free versions: a Limited shares (OwnCloud only seems to support 1 exported directory - I have lots); b (Serious) Do not integrate with POSIX users. The idea is the file sharing should integrate with linux, not try and take over. I did look at OpenAFS but there's no Android client. SFTP so far offers the simplest solution but I can find no nice clients that offer local copies (caching) so it is still somewhat half arsed. And i suspect the basic nature of the protocol is it would be hard work to make caching multiple client copies work. OK - allowing for the fact that "I could write it myself dammit" (actually, no, I don't have that type of coding skill) I'm very surprised such a killer app is missing from the opensource stable. This is the same opensource that brought us *BSD, Linux, perl, python, 2 super RDBMSs, top rate image editing, rock solid *connected* fileservices (NFS, SMB) allowing for the fact the latter had to be reverse engineered. Have all the creative types died?