"Stateless Linux" project

[John Hearns]

On Wed, 2004-09-15 at 00:18, Havoc Pennington wrote:
>  
> One thing some of us would like to avoid is two-way sync (merge), since
> it seems to be impossible to put a reasonable UI on it no matter how
> cool your underlying technology, and seems to crank up the complexity of
> the underlying technology in a big way

Talking about a two-way sync...
At the UKUUG Linux Developers Conference in Leeds Dave Coombs gave a
presentation on a project called WvSync.
There was a pretty good demonstration of two-way merging, which he has
given a great deal of attention to.
http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2004/programme/abstract-DCoombs-1.shtml
http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2004/programme/paper-DCoombs-1/wvsync.pdf
http://open.nit.ca/wiki/?page=WvSync

WvSync is a general framework for replicating named objects (which can
be files, but also many other things).
Have a look - it might find a place here.