Hopefully the rise of netbooks will make this question a bit easier to answer, but here goes.
I just returned from a trip where I took close to 1000 pictures with my cameras. My Dell mini was a real trooper during the trip, but there's only so many photos I can store on it before it starts to run out of space. What I would *really* like is the a filesystem that can: -Be network aware. If I can get to the server, automagically connect and display what is available -Have a sense of caching, so if I'm offline or on a slow connection, I can still load data on to it and have it sync up later. -Be smart about what files to keep cached. If I use a file, load it locally and then remove it from the local cache if unused after some period of time (or the local cache gets filled with new content) -work over ssh or equally 'secure' manner -Be something other than coda or intermezzo. Neither are well supported or apparently in use anymore, though both appeared to be exactly what I was looking for. I'd love it if someone could correct me on this. My current method is to use sshfs to mount a remote directory to my Photos directory and import files using F-spot. At least it sorts files by date and can export to Gallery Web, though any other use of that software is worthless. Using sshfs takes care of part of it, but if I'm off the network or on a very slow network, it is not very useful. For this purpose, I'll be reading from multiple locations, but writing from only one at a time, and I'm only using two cameras (each with their own unique file naming format) so concurrency and handling conflicts should not be an issue. On a side note, this idea would work for other types of media as well, such as loading music or movies to a local system before going on a trip. Any thoughts? -Mark _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/