On 04/03/15 14:15, Jeroen Belleman wrote:

Bah. Linux and Unix have all sorts of remote/shared filesystems.
Of course, some 'creative' minds thought it'd be a good idea to
invent yet another such thing. That's the bane of computing. It's
so often easier to reinvent something than it is to find out how
to use the existing tricks.

OK - tell me one that works well with Android, Chromebooks with a
semi-connected internet?

Because that's what I want.

And I have not found any.

SMB - no chance
NFS - not the slightest bit suitable
OpenAFS - the right logic is there but no client support

Most of the cloud-fs solutions seem to hang around WebDAV - but probably
augmented with update hints to aid caching and push delivery of updates.


It is a specialist network filesystem - that is for sure. It strikes me
as strange that there are 101 commercial suppliers (Dropbox, Google,
Evernote, Spideroak...) and yet no one has come up with a nice well
defined open protocol that addresses replication and syncing.