Hi folks, beeing tired of synchronizing configfiles, browser's bookmarks and several other folders between various boxes in my LAN I came up with the idea to store my homedirectory remotely on my fileserver (a quite powerful Debian Woody box, XFS filesystem, recent kernel).
So far, so good. If I had only desktops in my LAN, this wouldn't be much of a problem, perhaps Sun's NFS would be the choice (easy to set up, security concerns are not that important in my private LAN), or Samba, as I have experience with both of those two filesystems. But having a laptop I do pretty much work on I need something that allows "disconnected operation", that is: Caching the files accessed while network is unavailable and even having some files cached "sticky", like .dotfiles and similar stuff. This is important so I can work with the laptop if I'm not at home. After reconnection to the server, things should be synchronized again. Filesystems that come in mind to offer that functionality are Coda[1] and Intermezzo[2]. All in all they seem to be pretty "experimental", maybe Coda a bit less than Intermezzo. I'm not really sure how intensely these FS are developed: Intermezzo's last "News" entry on the homepage is dated over a year ago. Some folks on usenet say Coda is kinda "dead" since the developers itself think it's "overloaded" with features. OpenAFS[3] seems to have some sort of "disconnected operation" feature in it's TODO-list[4], but I haven't found much about this. I don't want to start a flamewar about NFS, AFS or other network filesystems. If anyone here has some experience with Coda or Intermezzo (or another NFS that could suit my needs), I'd like to hear. Bad news and good news. Mainly, there are two Gentoo Linux Clients I want to serve. I also have some SGI Indigos running IRIX and one NeXTstation running OpenSTEP, but I do not expect them to run any actual NFS. TIA, Jens Footnotes: ---------- [1] http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/ [2] http://www.inter-mezzo.org/ [3] http://www.openafs.org/ [4] http://www.openafs.org/frameless/projects.html -- It was pity stayed his hand. "Pity I don't have any more bullets," thought Frito. -- _Bored_of_the_Rings_, a Harvard Lampoon parody of Tolkein -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
