On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 13:40 -0400, Bryan K. Wright wrote:
When the connection is broken, the remote half of the mirror would be unavailable, and the local disk would be used. On reconnection, the halves of the mirror would resync.
That's a clever idea. Dan Reed has some code written that's a bit simpler approach - it just rsyncs the homedir periodically.
The remote on-again-off-again network distributed file system is exactly what CODA is designed for. And it handles laptops in disconnected mode, caches files, and merges changes back in on reconnect. Lots of good stuff in there, and many lessons learned. You may find slight differences in your requirements but it deserves a close look because it addresses most of the problems I have read about in this thread so far.
