[Digikam-users] Some questions re collection on Network Share

[cl at isbd.net]

Simon Cropper <simoncropper at fossworkflowguides.com> wrote:
> 
> I agree with Marcel. The idea is to have both machines appear like the 
> NFS share is actually on the same machine. Both desktop and laptop 
> should appear as a local repository despite one or both actually being a 
> network based share. The point with NFS is that the end product is an 
> integrated directory that software is unable *and have no need* to 
> distinguish from the native filesystem (except when the directory is not 
> mounted).
> 
So are you saying I should tell Digikam in both places that the
pictures are in a local directory even if they're not (as in once case
they will be an NFS mount)?

I think the Digikam set-up for selecting where images are should be
explained better - i.e. what difference does it make when you select
NFS as opposed to local?


> I use Ubuntu and seamlessly mount several linux (NFS exports) and 
> windows (CIFS/Samba Shares) machines to my local filesystem and use 
> rsync to sync my 'local' directories. This is a lot simpler than setting 
> up rsync to do this task.
> 
Is it?   Surely using rsync the difference is just:-

    rsync -a directory1 directory2

    rsync -a machine:directory1 directory2

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Chris Green
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