On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 22:16, Alan Horn wrote: > On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > > 1. lupfs > > 2. WebDAV. which, to me, unless it can be mounted and I can > > perform a File->Save and browse to it, won't be of much use to me. > > > > I'll see how it goes > > Have you considered something a little less interactive such as CVS ? It > sounds like you are collaborating with people in a different place, > perhaps it would be better to keep your data under CVS, then do the 'check > out, edit, check in' cycle ? I am sort of. However, the thing is, Not everyone is using Linux and most are on Windows machines and we usually just share M$ files :( excel and stuffs. It's binary and I don't expect ppl ascustomed to M$ to know how to use CVS > > Transport for that would be ssh with the same performance you would > expect. > > shfs looks very nice, but I really would advise against any sort of > interactive filesystem access across a WAN link. You're just going to get > yourself into a world of pain. By attempting to avoid that extra little > 'push the data back to the server' step you will ultimately slow down your > overall workflow since you will sit waiting and twiddling your thumbs for > _EVERY_ file operation to the remote filesystem. Well.. it's _an_ alternative > Better to edit the data locally then push it by some of the many available > methods (webdav, http put, cvs, rsync, etc...) That's exactly what I'm doing now actually. Which is a pain.. since I have to go into the server and then change permissions and ownership and stuffs. > > I've been doing this a long time (10+ years) so I'm not a newbie here :) Neither Am I. --
