SpiderOak Woes

[richard.pieri-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org (Richard Pieri)]

On Apr 13, 2011, at 10:40 PM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
> 
> I'll point out that in order to do so, it is a requirement
> that the whole thing be read locally which is disk intensive, and possibly
> cpu intensive, but if they live up to the claims, it's not necessarily
> network intensive.

Someone really, really needs to implement sparsebundles on Linux.  I can see a way to fake it with the software RAID system but that's slow and limited by the number of available loopback devices.

--Rich P.