It’s simpler, there is a client for everything even mobile phones, it has a move command, it has props that can be edited without a copy command, pagination is however you set it up to be rather than a one size fits all approach, it can be just as scalable as S3 if you build it to be, it has much simpler locks that make them easier to use so you might actually use them.
That’s just the protocol level. The biggest benefit for me isn’t really at the protocol level, but part of the design of my own WebDAV server: deduplication. I can throw the same file into my server with 50 different keys, and it will only take up the space of one copy on disk. This basically moved the logic of deduplication from my application to the blob store. Mountains easier from an application design perspective.
MacOS hates webdav (And I do hate my Mac too !) And their implementation is outdated… Maybe I didn’t find the right configuration to make is work properly like samba shares (after some special/specific mac configuration on the samba server side it works like a charm !!) but whenever a file got updates in an automated way, it somehow goes poof and wanished from my server… Scary shit !
hperrin@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
It’s simpler, there is a client for everything even mobile phones, it has a move command, it has props that can be edited without a copy command, pagination is however you set it up to be rather than a one size fits all approach, it can be just as scalable as S3 if you build it to be, it has much simpler locks that make them easier to use so you might actually use them.
That’s just the protocol level. The biggest benefit for me isn’t really at the protocol level, but part of the design of my own WebDAV server: deduplication. I can throw the same file into my server with 50 different keys, and it will only take up the space of one copy on disk. This basically moved the logic of deduplication from my application to the blob store. Mountains easier from an application design perspective.
eutampieri@feddit.it 1 week ago
Thanks!
N0x0n@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
MacOS hates webdav (And I do hate my Mac too !) And their implementation is outdated… Maybe I didn’t find the right configuration to make is work properly like samba shares (after some special/specific mac configuration on the samba server side it works like a charm !!) but whenever a file got updates in an automated way, it somehow goes poof and wanished from my server… Scary shit !