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From: Alan McKinnon <alan@linuxholdings.co.za>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for advice on shared file system.
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 21:14:53 +0200
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On Monday 26 February 2007, Michal 'vorner' Vaner wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 04:54:31PM +0000, Peter Lewis wrote:
> > I've been looking around for a while now for some sort of "shared
> > file system" which might meet my needs a little better than that
> > which I am currently using.
>
> Maybe coda? Thought I only heard of it, not used.
>
> Have a nice day

Yeah, that was my first thought as well. Code is marketed as being able 
to work in a disconnected state. Whatever that means, I'm sure it is 
good.

Other than that, the easiest way will be to work on one machine at a 
time (that doesn't seem unrealistic from the OP's original mail). Think 
of the project as if it were a piece of paper, there is only one master 
copy and only one place changes can be made. I would not use samba for 
this, I would use nfs as the connection medium. Why? Personal 
preference really, plus nfs is seamlessly part of the filesystem so 
writing scripts to sync one set offiles with another is trivial as long 
as the nfs mount is intact. With one big big proviso:

Make sure than your user account has the same uid on all three machines. 
The write some scripts to rsync data to and from between the current 
machine and the server.

hth

alan



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