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bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 10 hours agoSorry I meant more what’s in that git summary,
Portable file server with accelerated resumable uploads, dedup, WebDAV, FTP, TFTP, zeroconf, media indexer, thumbnails++ all in one file, no deps
I know FTP but the rest I dont really understand. Im often confused by stuff on git.
AllHailTheSheep@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
I haven’t looked at that GitHub but I’m familiar with most of the terms so here goes (verify them if you wish, I can’t promise full accuracy).
portable file server with accelerated resumable uploads: portable most likely means it’s easy to transfer from one server to another should you ever upgrade servers or anything else. resumable means you can pause the transfers if you desire.
dedup: it will automatically deduplicate files. so if you upload the same file twice it will just use the one you previously uploaded, saving space.
webdav is for distributed authoring and versioning. I don’t know a crazy amount about it by assume it means there’s some code in place that aids with collaboration as far as sensing a file, working on it, and reuploading goes.
ftp: file transfer protocol.
tftp: trivial file transfer protocol. good for small things but iirc it’s not inherently secure
zerconf: plug and play. no messing with configs needed.
media indexer/all in one file: most likely indexes media uploaded and stores the generated thumbnails in one big file. most likely this is so it’ll be easier to transfer the install to another server if needed (you can move one big file containing all the thumbnails instead of a bunch of tiny ones).
no deps: no dependencies, everything you need is self contained in that repo.
again, double check things your curious about but that’s my interpretation of what most would agree is kind of just a keyword description lol