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throwaway_bNwm8 commented on 100 time cheaper dropbox like service   hubic.com/en/offers/... · Posted by u/sebgeelen
mverwijs · 12 years ago
I wonder.. could this be a fork of the ol' iFolder by Novell?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IFolder

throwaway_bNwm8 · 12 years ago
No, it's proprietary software.

The project structure is completely different, so it's probably not even inspired by iFolder.

throwaway_bNwm8 commented on 100 time cheaper dropbox like service   hubic.com/en/offers/... · Posted by u/sebgeelen
nodata · 12 years ago
Jesus that's cheap. Anyone know how good their differential syncing is, or what they are using (librsync?) Are they using inotify or is it a regular tree walk?
throwaway_bNwm8 · 12 years ago
(Fires up a decompiler) Let's check...

1. From a quick glance I can't find anything related to patching in backend or change handling classes. Either I'm missing something or it doesn't handle arbitrary changes well. There's some suspect-driving long ByteDelta property on Change class, but I fail to see where it's used in a meaningful manner.

2. It uses a lightweight abstraction over System.IO.FileSystemWatcher. This means inotify, when ran on Mono on GNU/Linux.

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