If you are not using the noatime mount option it could be trying to update the access times on the files. You almost certainly dont care about that, so you may want to add that option. Another nice benefit is that it reduces harddrive wear, and allows the drive to be shut off more, squeezing a bit more battery life out of laptops.
On 1/30/08, Nick Cummings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Demme wrote: > > On Jan 29, 2008 4:49 PM, Nick Cummings <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > > > John Demme wrote: > > > Yes- for some time I was using unison to synchronize parts of my > > home > > > directory between my notebook and desktop. > > [snip] > > > > > > It's a nice program, but kinda of a pain sometimes when you have to > > > tell it which copy to overwrite. Maybe it's gotten better about > > that. > > > > I'm curious what you mean by this? > > > [snip] > > I don't recall all of the details since it's been some time, but I > > recall clicking the "left to right" button lots and lots of times when > > there were a series of files it couldn't figure out- either oddly > > deleted or conflicting or perhaps other other odd situations. I > > remember having to do it a bunch, and finding it very annoying and a > > bit stupid. Perhaps I just couldn't shift-click and specify the > > transfer direction for a bunch of files in the GTK interface. > > I don't remember off hand if you can do multiple selection of items in > the interface, so that certainly could be a shortcoming. As far as > Unison asking about conflicts, you can set up some default preferences > to resolve conflicts (e.g. always use version with newest time stamp, > always used version from system foo, etc.). You can even specify > particular preferences for particular paths on the machine (i.e. always > used newest version in /home/bar/tmp). Beyond that, I'm not sure how an > automated system could resolve these conflicts without human > intervention. It probably is useful to note that it can present you > with a diff of two versions and also has some tools for merging two > version, though I haven't used the latter. > > The only thing I've noticed is that sometimes it says that the > properties of a file have changed and I'm not sure why. If the copy of > the file on the other machine has also changed, then this causes a > conflict, even though I almost certainly want the version with > substantive changes not just changes in file properties. I don't know > if there's a way that can be dealt with. > > > Nick >
