Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2014 18:25:41 +0000 From: krad <kraduk@gmail.com> To: Matthew Pherigo <hybrid120@gmail.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Dropbox on FreeBSD Message-ID: <CALfReyez%2BS4jcM_C9TO5ARJ-9C=7R32L%2BbP3yJBVKy%2B5ho5Lug@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20791A12-EBA8-4CD7-B94E-CDC407967D06@gmail.com> References: <20140215070812.0f1c582f@scorpio> <20140215170859.GB11033@e330> <20791A12-EBA8-4CD7-B94E-CDC407967D06@gmail.com>
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you could always nest your dropbox folders within a btsync share on a windows or a linux box which would provide best of both worlds On 15 February 2014 18:01, Matthew Pherigo <hybrid120@gmail.com> wrote: > +1 for Bittorrent Sync. > > As I understand it, Dropbox relies on the inotify functionality in the > Linux kernel, and there is no equivalent function in the FreeBSD kernel > (which is why the linux compatibility layer doesn't have an inotify > function either). There are some unofficial solutions to this problem, bu= t > as far as I can see, btsync is a great solution. > > Now, it should be noted that btsync is just dumb peer-to-peer folder > syncing. Although it accomplishes a lot of what you would want from > dropbox, if you're a regular user of features like the web interface, the= n > you would probably be a lot better off setting up an instance of > Sparkleshare on your personal Web server. Sparkleshare is intended to be = an > open-source dropbox competitor, that has the features that btsync is > missing. The disadvantage, of course, is that Sparkleshare requires a Web > server, while btsync only needs to be installed on the computers you wish > to sync files on. > > --Matt > > > On Feb 15, 2014, at 11:08 AM, francesco scaglione < > francesco.scaglione@sfr.fr> wrote: > > > >> On 15 Feb 2014 =E0 07:08, Jerry wrote: > >> I use Dropbox and Windows SkyDrive, soon to be renamed OneDrive, > >> extensively. Unfortunately, there does not appear to be a version > available > >> for FreeBSD. These are listed on the site: > >> > >> Ubuntu (.deb) 64-bit 32-bit > >> Fedora (.rpm) 64-bit 32-bit > >> Debian (.deb) 64-bit 32-bit > >> Compile from source > >> > >> there are a few "Dropbox" ports; however, I am looking for something > that > >> works the same way across different platforms; ie Windows and FreeBSD. > Do > >> the Dropbox ports do that? If not, has anyone tried to use one of the > >> "Dropbox" distributions on FreeBSD? > >> > >> Thanks! > >> > >> -- > >> Jerry > > > > I had the very same problem and I've found a good solution using > > BitTorrent Sync across FreeBSD, Linux and Windows. Maybe it's worth to > > give a try? > > > > Francesco > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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