opinions

[cristhian...@gmail.com]

Assuming that I do not want to install and test the latest version of owncloud because I have no time, I wanted to ask you if any of you have tried the latest versions and if synchronization is as efficient as that of seafile or if remained unstable as in previous versions . I have already seen a comment regarding owncloud and AeroFS ... The latter seems quite valid. I have not yet tested the limits and I hope you will not disappoint me. Has anyone tried AeroFS also deeply? Admit it's not very flexible ... but at least the timing is stable and efficient even for large files and complex names?

[Pierrick BRUN]

Hi,

We have testing owncloud 4.5 in collaboration during a month and we had a lot of error and conflict in files synchronized. The  synchronization protocol of the version 5 have not changed.
With seafile, we have not errors on the same duration test.
The server load is not the same. Owncloud is an php application and consume more than a c application.

[cristhian...@gmail.com]

Thank you very much. I think the same thing. Have you ever tried AeroFS? However, indexing is a problem of seafile. Still here after 10 hours: "sync status: indexing files" .... Come on .... 100gb ... come on! Does anyone think that with a SSD and i7 CPU can get any better?

[Pierrick BRUN]

AeroFS seems to be good but ... what the licence ? can you install it on your own server ?
Can't compare seafile with it.

[cristhian...@gmail.com]

AeroFS has no needs of a server. You can also install it on a server. But the synchronization protocol is valid? When I tried the first version not so much.

[Lingtao Pan]

There should be something wrong. Check seafile.log. Indexing only read the files once, and calculate the sha1 sum. So it should not be very slow.  

[Distill Video Production]

I've tried versions 4 and 5 on Ubuntu with unsatisfactory results. In general OwnCloud was very slow to respond and update. Could not really deploy what I saw in bench tests. 

That said, it is an ambitious project and seems aimed more at Exchange Server than Dropbox (where I see Seafile positioned).