[callahad]

One day, I will love AeroFS. But that day is not yet today: AeroFS does not preserve file modification times across clients, which kills it for me.

On the bright side, I finally got around to setting up Unison + cron to keep files in sync between my MacBook Air and my MacBook Pro, and it's working quite well. I'd highly recommend it to anyone facing a similar challenge.

[erikcw]

I had read awhile back that Unison does not preserve HFS+'s extended attributes. Has that changed in a recent version?

[weihan]

Update: AeroFS now preserves modification times across devices :)

[gwillen]

I used Unison + cron for years, but recently I had to replace a machine, and discovered to my horror that my synced directory has grown beyond the size that Unison is capable of doing an initial synchronization of, EVEN if I precopy all the data. So AeroFS looks like it might be a killer app for me.

[res0nat0r]

Is there any way to speed Unison up on large datasets? It runs unusably slow even to scan changes of something like my mp3 directory.