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No longer :)

I'm a cofounder at AeroFS. The main advantage of AeroFS is P2P file syncing without using servers. S3 support is a nice addition to the basic functionality, allowing users to use S…

Co-founder of AeroFS here :-) 1. Symbolic link support is currently planned, I'd go to http://ae.ro/qc9Ey5 and upvote it. It'll allow us to notify you when it's done. 2. Bigger pla…

Update: AeroFS now preserves modification times across devices :)

we're working on it right now :)

Just fixed. It's now https://www.aerofs.com/signup instead :)

To echo your update on the original question: while AeroFS is a distributed filesystem with quite complicated mechanisms underneath, we work very hard to make AeroFS dead simple to…

actually all of them are on our todo list--three of the four are already implemented but yet to be exposed to the user :)

thanks for pointing this out! we'll investigate this further and may increase the key length as necessary.

Actually in theory AeroFS can run multiple instances on one device, and we are actually thinking it as the workaround :)

We have implemented full-fledge access control including file ownership, read/write permissions on data/metadata, list/add/remove permissions on directories, etc. But we disabled i…

I see. There are two categories of conflicts to resolve: meta conflicts (like when you rename a file to "foo" on device A and meanwhile rename it to "bar" on B) and data conflicts …

In short, AeroFS is a decentralized data management system running on top of p2p overlay networking. The overlay network layer presents to the data management layer a transport-agn…

1) we ICE/STUN as well as relay for firewall penetration. 2) we use a modified version of version vectors ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Version_vector ) and accompanying algorithm…

It uses p2p syncing: Any device that was invited and has sufficient privileges on a file can serve the file to peers.

Exactly. In addition, because cloud servers to us are merely a "super peer", AeroFS offers a superset of what a cloud-based solution can provide.

yeah rsync is the de-facto standard for delta sync I think :) Open API and/or open source part of AeroFS are in our plans.

We developed a lot of the protocols and technologies ourselves, and could talk about them for hours :) Let me know if you have a specific area you want me to discuss.

There are a few (Google "fuse windows"). In particular, Dokan ( http://dokan-dev.net/en/ ) seems to be a good one. The project is quite active recently.

We generate a temporary password for the user being invited and encode it in the invitation code sent to the user's email address. We use this temp pass to verify the user when he/…

Yes. We use CBFS ( http://www.eldos.com/cbfs/ ) for Windows.