Should support syncing on a local network
Bug #375302 reported by
Jorge Castro
This bug affects 40 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Ubuntu One Client |
Confirmed
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Wishlist
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Let's say I have 5 machines on my network. I stick a 1gb file in my Ubuntu One folder, the client uploads the image to the server, and then each of the 4 clients downloads the 1gb file. It would be nice for those who crave efficiency (and those in Australia!) if U1 was smart enough to propagate the file on the local LAN connections, and then upload to to the web server. (or whatever) Maybe having them find themselves via avahi or something.
That way my outbound connection isn't saturated with 5 clients all trying to sync the same file and you can probably save bandwidth on the server side by not serving me the same file 4 times.
Changed in ubuntuone-client: | |
importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
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In my view, the U1 share dialog from nautilus should be merged with the samba sharing one, which should also support non-samba (NFS, SSH-FS?) sharing and sharing between users on a machine.
Basically, sharing files between users on a machine, a local net or the world should be a consistent experience.