Filesystem wars! (was Re: woody CDs :()

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Author: Blake Barnett
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Subject: Filesystem wars! (was Re: woody CDs :()
On Wed, 2002-03-27 at 14:16, Kevin Buettner wrote:
> I ended up not using either of these solutions. All I really care
> about is pushing the contents of my development directory over to
> the (unstable) machine as it changes over time. I ended up writing
> a little script that interfaces with fam (the File Alteration Monitor)
> that ships with recent Red Hat releases. The script uses the services
> provided by fam to notice when a file has changed and then invokes
> rsync over ssh to update it on the remote machine. It's smart about
> recognizing when a number of files change within a short span of time
> (e.g. during a cvs update) and syncs these files in a batch rather than
> individually.


You should checkout Unison, it was made to do exactly this. rysnc in
daemon mode would also work.

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