Yves Dorfsman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
>>> 
>>> http://code.google.com/p/lsyncd/
>> 
>> Yup, that one fits the description.  It looks really cool!  :-)
>
> Hmmm... rsync is so efficient that I have to wonder what kind of
> extreme case would make this attractive.

Anything where the cost in memory, IOPS or other resources was
undesirable?  Seriously, rsync has some small scaling issues, even if
the rsync 3 release helps with some.

[...]

>> I'm not trying to solve any particular problem specifically.  This is
>> really for the sake of discussion and understanding of what new
>> technologies are out there, for possible future use.
>
> One thin I am playing with is disconnected filesystem, and right now
> nothing beats rsync...

The revolution of lowered expectations wins again. ;)

[...]

> My intention is to write a fuse module to keep track of deletes and
> apply them automatically.

You might find it more useful to consider GLusterFS, implemented with
FUSE, which already does what you are talking out:
http://www.gluster.org/

> I have also been thinking of using git, but that would be quite
> involved (every machine is a branch, give the user the possibility to
> merge the branch at a latter time).

That would require some significant changes to git to allow pruning
revisions out of the history, or manual commits, either of which has
some nasty failure modes, I would have thought.

Regards,
        Daniel
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