Hi, I've been looking around for a while now for some sort of "shared file system" which might meet my needs a little better than that which I am currently using.
I regularly use two different computers (desktop and laptop) for the same work and have always had a network (samba) drive mounted from a server box in order to be able to have one "documents repository" for all three machines. This works fine, so long as I am connected to the network (or at a push, the internet via ssh and fuse), but it leaves me at a loss whilst I am working from the laptop and not able to be connected. There is also the added negative point that when I am not on a fast connection, working on a network drive can slow things down quite a bit. For a while, I have been getting around this by using rsync on a seperate directory, which I keep mirrored between all three machines. I have a simple shell script which will "check out" the files from the server to the local machine and another which will "check them back in" when I have finished working with them. The basic idea is to use something like rsync -rvzu --delete <rest of command> This does work, though I have to remember to check them back in before I finish. Once, I forgot and the script deleted all the changes. Also, it is quite inflexible and I just know that I am going to trip up by having various versions of the files on different computers. So... what I am looking for is some kind of file system a bit like IMAP is for mail, which will keep the files synchronised with each other (preferably automatically, or via a cron job or something) but also maintain a local copy of the files so that I can unplug from the network, carry on working and plug back in later - all seamlessly. Does anyone know of anything like this, or can make a recommendation? Alternatively, is it possible to mount a filesystem over a disconnected IMAP connection (perhaps using fuse) in a similar way to with mail? Is this a daft idea? Many thanks, Pete. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
