[clug-talk] Is there anybody out there???

[TekBudda]

> My NAS (DNS-323, FW=1.04) is using ext2.  If it were up to me I'd use
> ext3 because of the journaling.
This was original thought as well.  I know there are gobs of other
journaling system out tehre, but I imagine ext3 is likely the most
common & stable in today's world....but I could be on crack.  I
supposes it would have the advantage of not getting fragmented as
well.

The data would be a mixture of documents & media files at this
point...but who knows.

> Using ext2 or ext3 allows you to retain all the file metadata that a windows share needs as well as have the data that xNIX needs to share.
> It's fairly straight forward to build a SAMBA server around a Linux formated drive.
Do I need to do anything special for storing my WIndows profiles or
anything or just build teh share & away I go?  I imagine it is that
simple... most things in Linux are...LOL! ;-)

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I iwll have to look into this and see if I can get clearence from the wife.


> This is a completely different can.  If you make the problem slightly
> more generic you wind up having to arbitrate 'N' of 'M' updates.  ie.
> you make a change to the 'slave' copy on your flash drive, your wife
> makes a change on her 'slave' copy and the master is updated via
> automated processing.  How do you correctly merge the result?  Tough
> problem!
> The best (and it's not great) solution I've seen is for every system to
> mark the changed copy 'dirty' and date/time stamp the change.  When
> syncing the changes are applied in sequence where possible.
> The desired behaviour will probably change by application though.  If
> you edit a friends contact info and your wife deletes the same contact
> info.  When you merge with the master do you "Modify, then Delete" or
> "Delete and have an invalid Modify" or "Delete and implicitly add the
> Modified data"?

I see what you mean with all of this.  I have been trying to wrap my
head around it all.  I would like start with a databse on the USB
stcik copied from the network...then when I got home copy it back and
mount it.  I assume that would be the proper way?

On other software though.. is that type of sharing possible of would
it take individual set up on each platform?