[OLPC-AU] [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] copy files to/from server

[Martin Langhoff]

On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 5:15 PM, Martin Abente
<martin.abente.lahaye at gmail.com> wrote:
> I still didn't make up my mind about which technical approach should I
> take in order to get this working, but I guess people already started
> sharing some ideas. And I would appreciate more ideas and discussion
> before I get to that point.

ok - some notes from me on this topic

For file management, I very strongly recommend using WebDAV. It is a
bit less efficient than "real" network file system protocols, but the
benefits are many:
   - more flexibilty
   - closer to you and me in the stack - you can easily find WebDAV
toolkits in HLLs that allow you to expose your data as files and
directories over WebDAV, as well as client implementations
   - it deals reasonably gracefully with intermittent connectivity
(SMB/CIFS, NFS, etc get you nasty system freezes if the server
disappears)
   - wide range of (fairly well behaved) client and server implementations
   - a good test suite for the server side
   - On the XS side... Moodle has a WebDAV implementation and Apache
has one too.