[Wolves] Dropbox as your home directory

[Andy Jewell]

> From: wolves-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk [wolves-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Peter Cannon [dick_turpin at archlinux.us]
> Sent: 18 February 2010 09:49
> To: Wolverhampton Linux User Group
> Subject: [Wolves] Dropbox as your home directory
> 
> Hi All
> 
> Here's Pete's musings for today which I'll put in bullet points that should make
> it shorter.
> 
> 1. Would it be possible to have Dropbox (Or Ubuntu one (when it works)) as your
> /home/(dropbox)username directory?
> 2. If so then other machines could have the same setup?
> 3. That would would mean 'your profile' across any machine regardless of location.
> 
> And now the $64 Billion dollar question
> 
> I wonder how hard it would be to incorporate that in a distro? Obviously during
> the install procedure (useradd) you'd have to choose your desired install,
> A. Proceed with standard /home setup
> B. Proceed with Dropbox /home setup (Your user name and login details will be
> required)
> 
> Now I'd use that and its my definition of *Cloud Computing* not this stupid stuff
> that effectively is short cuts on your desktop to internet applications.
> 
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If there's a FUSE driver to mount your dropbox, it should work.

But it would probably be slow - unless for instance with Ubuntu One, you make a local replica of your couchdb database (couchdb is what is behind Ubuntu One).

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