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> Notably missing is support for merging, which ZFS does not have direct support for as far as I'm aware. That insight is critical, especially now that we are
by espadrine 10y ago
> Notably missing is support for merging, which ZFS does not have direct support for as far as I'm aware.
That insight is critical, especially now that we are heading towards Dropbox Infinite, IPFS, Ceph and so many other non-centralized file systems.
Syncing is not a solved problem at all yet. Advances can bring the same revolution as 3-way merging did to SCMs, previously dominated by file-locking mechanisms.
- linsomniac 10y agoWhat was that replicated filesystem back in the 90s that promised to be the next NFS, but with disconnected operation and merging when you came back online? Coda, that's right. I had such high hopes for it in my move to using a laptop as my primary machine, but never got it working despite several attempts at it. Admittedly they weren't more than a couple hours at a given time...