Hi,
First, I want to say that I have fallen in love with CentOS4. I have been using RedHat since the 5.x days. After RedHat dropped the stable system to go to a unstable system and a Enterprise system I felt like I was being left out in the cold. I quickly found out about WhiteBox and used it for quite a while. Then I learned about CentOS...and switched to it for my server needs. I have switched to CentOS4 and it is an awsome stable operating system. I just wanted to add my praise before I asked my question.
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?
Thanks again, Doug Eubanks 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?
GFS is non trivial to setup, and is not meant for this sort of a role.
Coda seem to publish src.rpm's ( http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/pub/coda/linux/RedHat-SRPMS/ ) have you tried a rebuild on CentOS4 ?
Dag has intersync on his repo, but not for CentOS4 - looking at the buildlogs there seems to be an issue ( maybe you can work with his .spec + sources and help sort the issue out ? )
- K
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On 5/10/05, Karanbir Singh Mail-Lists@karan.org wrote:
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?
GFS is non trivial to setup, and is not meant for this sort of a role.
Coda seem to publish src.rpm's ( http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/pub/coda/linux/RedHat-SRPMS/ ) have you tried a rebuild on CentOS4 ?
Dag has intersync on his repo, but not for CentOS4 - looking at the buildlogs there seems to be an issue ( maybe you can work with his .spec
- sources and help sort the issue out ? )
have you looked ay unison (http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/) ?
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
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