Another distributed filesystem beside BittorrentSync

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ori.scs.stanford.edu
Ori is a distributed file system built for offline operation and empowers the user with control over synchronization operations and con.flict resolution. We provide history through light weight snapshots and allow users to verify the history has not been tampered with. Through the use of replication instances can be resilient and recover damaged data from other nodes.

It is called "ori" and is a "fuse"-based filesystem.

it IS opensource and in beta.

[ori.scs.stanford.edu]

refering to the build process, I don't know if it can be ported to OpenWRT, but maybe yes.

What do you think?

Sorry for resurrecting an old topic but I thought I would chime in since this is something I'd like to see implemented. A quick Google search looks like there are some people already working on getting GlusterFS working on OpenWRT and other ARM/MIPS based systems. In my limited searching I wasn't able to find anyone who had actually succeeded but it might be worth looking into if nothing else since there seems to at least be some interest in that arena.

I don't think GlusterFS is the right fit. The goal of GlusterFS is to maintain real-time consistency across multiple nodes. At file access time, it expects to connect to all other nodes to verify that the file it's serving is the latest one. While it can operate in an "offline" capacity, that's considered an error state and recovering from a split-brain scenario isn't a pleasant process.

I think the goal is something more like a Dropbox situation: a set of files are synchronized when they find themselves in contact with the Internet. In this case, it would likely be a trusted peer. Ori sounds very interesting.

>> I don't think GlusterFS is the right fit. The goal of GlusterFS is to maintain real-time consistency across multiple nodes.
True, after a year more experience in this topic, I can totally agree with your.

Maybe syncthing can be an option?

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What about Syncthing. Check it out at [syncthing.net]

Syncthing is great. I like & use it a lot.

The question is, what do you want to achieve

From the technical perspective, syncthing might be a bit too memory intensive... if someone manages it to get it working on OpenWrt+go + MIPS/AR71xx based chips.

Maybe it is a good usecase for mix between RPi and normal PirateBoxes. I don't know

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