Re: [Ayatana] "Unsaved state" and the Cloud

[Shane Fagan <shanepatrickfagan@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 21:38 +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
> On 03/05/10 20:41, Diego Moya wrote:
> > So my four dimensions for cloud storage are these:
> > - Location: Connected vs Disconnected.
> > - Speed: Fast vs Slow medium.
> > - Persistence: Saved vs Unsaved.
> > - Sharing: Published vs Private.
> >   
> 
> I think this is good analysis and an interesting idea.
> 
> +1 to the meme of autosaving, autoversioning, and persistent undo (undo
> that survives quit).
> +1 to the idea of automatic replication.
> 
> I'm pretty certain this should not be per-file, though. The idea should
> be to convey the state of the device in general, and perhaps of an
> individual application. This is the 21st century moral equivalent of the
> "dirty" bit, the indication that a file needed saving.
> 
> Mark
Hey Mark,

Dont you think it would be a little heavy memory wise to have so much
replication? I like the idea but if you have a versioning replicating
set of user files for most heavy users that would scale badly IMO. 

-fagan