On 5/6/05, admin@dougware.net admin@dougware.net wrote:
I need a network based distributed operating system, something like Intermezzo or Coda to keep two servers in sync on one partition. I have a server at work and at home that I want to keep a MyDocuments partition in sync. NFS will not work because I need a offline or online solution. RSYNC will not work, who many inconsistancies from files being created and removed. Will GFS work for my needs when they release U1 for CentOS? If not, does anyone have any coda or intermezzo rpms for CentOS4?
I really like having things stored in a version control system (e.g. cvs, svn, git, arch). That way your machine at home is the repository and you can use a "cvs checkout documents/taxes" to get all of those documents and also do an update to see which ones have changed locally and need to be committed back to the server. Subversion is a bit more efficient than cvs. I haven't looked heavily at git or arch, but they have smart people working on them.
Personal disk space is cheap...why not keep all revisions of your documents :)
Greg