🚀 go-pugleaf

Mark Anderson <mea@nospambradnylion.com> wrote:
> In article presence@MUNGEpanix.com says...
>> > Here's my setup.  I have two nix boxes connected to Dropbox.  Call them 
>> 
>> if you have two unix boxes and they're connected in anyway, why do you 
>> need some goofy dropbox service?
>> 
>> people try to get me to use that stuff with windows. fuck that.
> 
> The box's OS is more or less irrelevant.  I'm testing the service and 
> how to integrate it into certain situations.  I'd like some nodes to be 
> clients only and get data pushed onto them with no way of affecting the 
> main repository on Dropbox in any way and some nodes to be masters that 
> have more control over the Dropbox repository.
> 
> After some researching this Dropbox is a rather stupid service that only 
> recently allowed a node to only request certain directories in a repo 
> (which seems like pretty basic functionality).  I have concluded (and I 
> could be wrong) that all nodes can make changes to the repo so if I want 
> nodes to be pull only, that has to be enforced at the endpoint.  This 
> can certainly be done assuming endpoints act responsibly (i.e. trusted) 
> using proper file permissions to prevent screwups.  I would have thought 
> however, after all these years in business, the leader in cyberlockers 

hahah- cyberlockers.

> would have implemented more sophisticated file syncing.  I can't seem to 
> find this in their paid services.  Maybe their "Teams" has this 
> capability but I jury rigged a solution around their free service 
> regardless.
> 
> None of this is rocket science.  Perhaps some patent troll got a patent 
> on the functionality of rsync so Dropbox can't do that without paying 
> the dane geld.

create some complex AFS setup.