At Wed, 04 Mar 2015 14:32:04 +0000 Tim Watts wrote:


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.

What about something like git or subversion? *Subversion* uses a WebDAV-based
protocol for svn-over-http(s).



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.

What is sounds like is that you are looking for is something like subversion's
WebDAV-based protocol. The bits and pieces are there. WebDAV is reasonably
well documented. Subversion is open source, so one can have a look at what it
does.

As others have said, programs like rsync seem to cover the bases that Linux
*Developers* are interested in. I suspect that few of the Linux *developers*
are interested in yet another pointy-clicky 'toy'. *I* certainly have no
interest in such a toy. OTOH, I have dial-up Internet access at home, so any
sort of 'Cloud' services are pretty much not much use to me. Subversion (or
git) are about the most I can deal with.





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