Re: Centralised user accounts and laptops

On 29 May 2007, Stephen Patterson uttered the following:
There's coda[0] a caching nfs-like filesystem that could be used though
last time I checked it could only handle a few hundreds of Megabytes.

It's AFS-like, not NFS-like, with a profundly non-Unixlike permissions
system and some bizarre restrictions (like no hardlinking one file into
more than one directory).

It eats quite astounding quantities of RAM+swap thanks to its
developers' brilliant decision to keep all metadata mmap()ed at all
times, which means that you need at least 5% as much swap as you have
space in all your Coda volumes put together.

You may get more mileage out of unison[1], which is a bidirectional file
synchroniser intended synchronise files between 2 mounted directories (or
ssh locations etc) when the files are edited on either/both sides.

Seconded.

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