[Owncloud] Syncing and Time Synchronization

Brad McEvoy brad at bradmcevoy.com
Wed Jul 18 11:30:39 UTC 2012


What I've done previously is to have the client log the the path and 
hash in a local database (eg sqllite) after each file is synced. Then 
when the sync finds differing client/server hashes it checks the db hash 
to find out which, or both, has changed.


On 18/07/12 23:12, Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> On Wednesday, July 18, 2012 10:31:13 Klaas Freitag wrote:
>> For that, the best would be if the ownCloud WebDAV server would provide
>> another WebDAV property that returns the md5-sum of the file or file
>> list. That probably means that the md5 sum needs to be calculated on
>> every file change on the server and be stored in the fs cache.
>>
>> Is that doable? Who can help with that?
> Naive question: If the md5sums differ, how do you know which file is older and
> which one is newer?





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