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Thanks to dropbox inifit I discovered Infinit.sh - http://infinit.sh/ which I got really excited about. I wonder what is their experience with using FUSE and DOKANY..
Thanks, Dropbox!
As a paying Pro customer, I am a bit worried how intent they seem to be on pushing the business/enterprise products. First of all, Dropbox the web application is spammed with Dropbox Business advertising. I am already paying. And, no, my employer (a European university) is unlikely to roll out Dropbox Business. So please stop bugging me :(. Secondly, more and more features are rolled out to business users first. Why?…
So..the cost of an extra kernel/userspace switch was too much for a file request that is going to be serviced by a server on the other side of the internet?..really?
Putting ext3 into userspace led to slightly less than 10% performance degradation on postmark. Fuse really isn't an issue in most cases, and I can't imagine that this makes a huge difference on most workloads.
As a paying Pro customer, I am a bit worried how intent they seem to be on pushing the business/enterprise products. First of all, Dropbox the web application is spammed with Dropbox Business advertising. I am already paying. And, no, my employer (a European university) is unlikely to roll out Dropbox Business. So please stop bugging me :(. Secondly, more and more features are rolled out to business users first. Why?…
Aren't those who are "already paying" the most likely to upgrade? Maybe not you or not your institution, but most.
It starts with a few people at a business, and then they update to a business account.
So instead of using a FS shim to userspace on security grounds they decided to distribute a custom kext that's closed source -- ie a great way for normal bugs to turn into dangerous ones? I'm not sure I understand the logic here
Exactly, we should be moving in the opposite direction: make as much software as possible user-space and sandboxed. I assume a party as large as Dropbox can request Apple to extend the APIs where necessary?
As large? Dropbox is like a fly to Apple. Not to mention competitors. And they haven't budged for much larger parties.
So, unless it's something that Apple intends to do anyway, Dropbox's request will don't have much success.
I've been resisting building a custom HFS+ reader for years but apples expanded use of hard links plus whatever DB is about to unleash might require a new approach.
Thanks to dropbox inifit I discovered Infinit.sh - http://infinit.sh/ which I got really excited about. I wonder what is their experience with using FUSE and DOKANY..
I suppose "deeper" also being the strategic direction they're taking with this?