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In article kmz@lavabit.com says...
> 
> On 2012-09-09 23:39, Cydrome Leader wrote:
> > Kristian M Zoerhoff <kmz@lavabit.com> wrote:
> >> On 2012-09-06 15:49, Mark Anderson wrote:
> >>> In article presence@MUNGEpanix.com says...
> >>>>> 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.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks!  I have some reading to do.  Here's a relevant link from 
> >>> Stanford for anyone from the future who ever reads this group.
> >>>
> >>> https://itservices.stanford.edu/service/afs
> >>
> >> If you actually implement this in AFS, I will come over to your rat hole
> >> and punch you directly in the balls.
> >>
> >> Yes, I work with AFS daily.
> > 
> > any great stories? I think I last had a serious AFS chat with somebody 
> > like 14 years ago.
> 
> Not really. As with everything else, we never put enough cash into basic
> infrastructure, so we get things like shitty AFS performance due to
> insufficient network bandwidth.
> 
> Oh, I did have to install OpenAFS on my ThinkPad a while back.
> Performance over my DSL line is terrible, but being able to browse AFS
> from a command line in Windows is pretty neat.

I did look into AFS as a science project since my need was to utilize a 
third party cloud provider and not become my own cloud provider.  
OpenAFS is part of the standard Fedora yum repo but not Centos.  There 
are some weird requirements like the first machine must have the lowest 
IP address which seemed questionable.  Probably could have gotten it 
going but it started to become a lot of work and I really don't have a 
use for it now but it was interesting to read about.  I hadn't heard of 
AFS before.

Just signed up with SpiderOak and it seems more intuitive and has some 
interesting FOSS modules that might prove useful.  The out of the box 
file sync control is much more intuitive than Dropbox' (I still can't 
find documentation describing how it works).  SpiderOak lets you define 
syncs but it doesn't seem to apply any kind of rules to that sync.  
That's OK however.  It'll work for what I need to do easier than 
Dropbox.  I'll still use Dropbox too but much more carefully.

Now I have 4G of cloud storage for free.  Remember when the local ISPs 
here would only give you something like 10MB total for your web site?