What about Google Drive File Stream? https://support.google.com/drive/answer/7329379?hl=en
No support for Linux.
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#12Congrats on shipping! How does this compare to https://github.com/astrada/google-drive-ocamlfuse aside from the programming language?
Thank you! I think google-drive-ocamlfuse is an excellent product. It is clearly more mature and has more features than GCSF. I made a comparison between the two projects in sections 4.2 and 4.3 of my thesis [0]. In short, GCSF tends to be faster in several cases (listing files recursively, reading large files from Drive). The caching strategy it uses also leads to very fast reads (x4-7 improvement compared to google…
Any comparisons to rclone's gdrive integration?
Seems that rclone probably has the biggest userbase of the "google drive fuse mount" tools.
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#13What about Google Drive File Stream? https://support.google.com/drive/answer/7329379?hl=en
I use this at work and it’s very good.
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#14Hello everyone! I have built a tool that allows Linux and macOS users to mount their Google Drive account locally as a virtual file system. The file system supports most typical operations (creating/deleting/moving/renaming files and directories, reading/writing to them). It can also export special Drive files as OpenOffice documents and has an in-memory cache which improves the speed of navigation and file access. C…
Cool project. Just FYI: footnote 68, which is supposed to have the Github link, has a link to something else instead.
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#15Why do you trust Google enough to do this?
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#16Very cool!
I ship a similar product that has included Google Drive integration (and many other back ends) since 2013 - https://www.expandrive.com - happy to answer any questions too!
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#18Hello everyone! I have built a tool that allows Linux and macOS users to mount their Google Drive account locally as a virtual file system. The file system supports most typical operations (creating/deleting/moving/renaming files and directories, reading/writing to them). It can also export special Drive files as OpenOffice documents and has an in-memory cache which improves the speed of navigation and file access. C…
Cool project. Just FYI: footnote 68, which is supposed to have the Github link, has a link to something else instead.
Thank you for pointing this out. The link should now be fixed.
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#19I don't get it. Isn't this the same as what implemented natively in GNOME, or with Backup and Sync on Windows and MacOS?
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#20What about Windows support?