[Unison-hackers] If you're wondering -- cloud sync alternatives to unison are still bad

[Benjamin C. Pierce]

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 <rrnewton at gmail.com> 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
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