osync VS Go IPFS

I tried googling and see this github repo for a shell tool called osync. Not sure if that's what it is or if that's a "red herring". From reading the description of that tool, it sounds like it's syncing files? With what? From what?

I still use it, because that's what I decided to set up after looking around and people raining praise onto it, but I wouldn't ever recommend it. It's a neat project, it does work if you essentially never touch it afterwards, but it's not a useful one as is if you do want to move things around a bit. I'd much rather use anything else, even proprietary solutions, than have to use Syncthing. When I stop lazing about and rebuild my system, I'm probably moving over to osync or something. Better that than Syncthing.

A tool called osync which might be able to do the job, it's like OS-level solution.

I've been considering simply moving over to osync because the little shit can't even handle a few additional files without crapping out. It works fine, when it works, but I almost don't dare touch it lest it crap itself out again. Its a sync program, adding a folder of some twenty pictures should not make it decide to dig an early grave.

nice/renice isn’t what it used to be[0].

Bandwidth limiting is not built in[1].

[0] - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10342470/process-nicenes...

[1] - https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/issues/3065

For me, https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/issues/9044 is the main blocker atm and https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/issues/2167 is still around and annoying.

It makes me wonder if you use the IPFS FUSE mount and symlink an IPNS address of files that you want to sync if it would be read by Dropbox.

I'm using the IPFS fuse mount to load mine into Plex/Jellyfin. It's nice that I can load a movie into a virtual directory on IPFS and my home and remote servers get updated automatically. (when I update my IPNS) So you could run an official solidaritycinema IPNS address that people load into their Plex as a library.

Maybe tangentially related, I've been interested in IPFS as a network medium. ( Using the IPFS fuse mount ) Rather than syncing the entire file it syncs the Library list. When the Plex server makes the request for the file, IPFS negotiates the download. It makes it more like Netflix.

I've been messing with Plex + IPFS and I think it's pretty cool. The IPFS FUSE Mount gives IPFS network access to Plex as just a regular filesystem. To keep it private within my family I'm using a Private Swarm.

"Implement bandwidth limiting" https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/issues/3065

Going on six years now. You can use external tools (like "trickle") or your OS knobs.

So my plan is to setup plex on a relative's Raspberry Pi so that it works off the IPFS mounted network directories in the same way. They'll have a virtual library that takes basically no memory on their Pi unless they request a video, then it'll start caching to their machine.