From rrnewton at gmail.com Mon Aug 19 01:37:18 2013 From: rrnewton at gmail.com (Ryan Newton) Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 01:37:18 -0400 Subject: [Unison-hackers] If you're wondering -- cloud sync alternatives to unison are still bad Message-ID: I did a new round of benchmarking of a couple of the alternatives: http://parfunk.blogspot.com/2013/08/revisiting-google-drive-year-later.html unison is much faster than the alternatives I've tried, including DropBox. Further, all the bugs listed in that post are an indication to me that it will take a while before any of these newer systems reach the level of robustness / correctness in unison. Sigh, I wish it weren't so. Best, -Ryan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From andrex at alumni.utexas.net Mon Aug 19 04:37:48 2013 From: andrex at alumni.utexas.net (Andrew Schulman) Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 04:37:48 -0400 Subject: [Unison-hackers] If you're wondering -- cloud sync alternatives to unison are still bad References: Message-ID: <3am3191npjjidrg5ls1uuco36l3skdstbh@4ax.com> > I did a new round of benchmarking of a couple of the alternatives: > > > http://parfunk.blogspot.com/2013/08/revisiting-google-drive-year-later.html > > unison is much faster than the alternatives I've tried, including DropBox. > Further, all the bugs listed in that post are an indication to me that it > will take a while before any of these newer systems reach the level of > robustness / correctness in unison. Thanks for the write-up, it's helpful information. Andrew From alexandre at quessy.net Mon Aug 19 07:25:41 2013 From: alexandre at quessy.net (Alexandre Quessy) Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 07:25:41 -0400 Subject: [Unison-hackers] If you're wondering -- cloud sync alternatives to unison are still bad In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi, Very nice. Thanks. What about Sparkleshare? (git-based) http://alexandre.quessy.net - Envoy? depuis mon t?l?phone. Le 19 ao?t 2013 01:49, "Ryan Newton" a ?crit : > I did a new round of benchmarking of a couple of the alternatives: > > > http://parfunk.blogspot.com/2013/08/revisiting-google-drive-year-later.html > > unison is much faster than the alternatives I've tried, including DropBox. > Further, all the bugs listed in that post are an indication to me that it > will take a while before any of these newer systems reach the level of > robustness / correctness in unison. > > Sigh, I wish it weren't so. > > Best, > -Ryan > > _______________________________________________ > Unison-hackers mailing list > Unison-hackers at lists.seas.upenn.edu > http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/unison-hackers > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bcpierce at cis.upenn.edu Mon Aug 19 08:40:53 2013 From: bcpierce at cis.upenn.edu (Benjamin C. Pierce) Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 08:40:53 -0400 Subject: [Unison-hackers] If you're wondering -- cloud sync alternatives to unison are still bad In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <37540D30-A926-41AE-B12B-284D68368645@cis.upenn.edu> Many thanks for taking the time to do these experiments and write them up carefully! I've also been eagerly awaiting a really good cloud-based synchronization solution, and for years I've been amazed that they seem to be so slow to arrive. I still use Unison for most everything, though I agree that its always-on behavior is still sadly lacking. I do keep a small number of smallish files in Dropbox -- ones that I want to be more-or-less-instantly shared across all devices, including IOS devices -- but I'm too nervous about correctness to put all my stuff there. (This is not a hypothetical worry: I've observed some pretty strange behaviors even with my limited usage. E.g., I've got one "zombie directory" that I've tried to delete probably 40 times, on various devices and via the DB web interface, without success. Sigh.) - Benjamin On Aug 19, 2013, at 1:37 AM, Ryan Newton wrote: > I did a new round of benchmarking of a couple of the alternatives: > > http://parfunk.blogspot.com/2013/08/revisiting-google-drive-year-later.html > > unison is much faster than the alternatives I've tried, including DropBox. Further, all the bugs listed in that post are an indication to me that it will take a while before any of these newer systems reach the level of robustness / correctness in unison. > > Sigh, I wish it weren't so. > > Best, > -Ryan > _______________________________________________ > Unison-hackers mailing list > Unison-hackers at lists.seas.upenn.edu > http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/unison-hackers -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: