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Make my own Dropbox / Ubuntu One server at home
First of all I should define what I mean with "distributed" - I mean to have the same file copy on each associated computer. If I change the file on one machine, all other copies have to be actualized automatically. Furthermore each client saves a local revision.
(I know that's practically the same as Dropbox, but Dropbox doesn't allow me to use my own root server and I have terabytes of space there I intend to use)
Now to the problem:
rsync for example can recursively synchronize folder contents. I doesn't store revisions. Git could act as a content tracker (it's not necessarily just source control), but it is definitely not supposed to handle large files or binaries at all. An approach like Unison sounds interesting, it doesn't synchronize if files are changed. It just schedules rsyncs and takes revisions.
Is there anything in FUSE like an rsync filesystem? - There are approaches for backups, but backups and file-sync are two very different use-cases: a backup can be scheduled at a specific time, like at night or so. A synchronization occurs if a file is changed, which is handled as an event
if this really doesn't exist: do you consider it being possible to have an rsyncfs like curlftpfs or sshfs, acting as a FUSE mount point?
