Comment by linsomniac
8 years ago
I've been watching Camlistore for a few years. I peek in on it every once in a while, long enough between that I usually can't remember the name. I like the look of it, but haven't been convinced to go from my decade old ZFS setup to Camlistore.
I feel like OwnCloud is more compelling, from a glance. Anyone use one or both and able to comment?
Camlistore author here.
If you only store files, sure, use ZFS.
Perkeep (Camlistore) doesn't write to a block device. It has storage backends for a filesystem (which can be ZFS) and any number of cloud object storage providers (S3, GCS, etc).
Perkeep's main value over a fancy POSIX filesystem is storing nameless things (tweets, other social media content + interactions, bookmarks) in common schemas, and permitting search over it all, and then having a variety of ways to browse it (CLI, FUSE, API, web UI, etc).
It's also good at sync to & from things any which way without merge conflicts.