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Re: Show HN: Google Drive as a file system

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Post by applecrazy » Sun, Jul 01, 2018, 4:36 PM UTC

discreditable wrote: post #17

qrbLPHiKpiux wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use this at work and it’s very good.

Same here. I wish they offered it for personal accounts. I would happily start paying for Drive to use it.

I’m not sure if it’s what you’re looking for, but Backup and Sync is a similar Drive sync utility made by google for personal accounts. The only feature that it doesn’t have is file-level sync settings (afaik B&S only has folder level sync options)

Re: Show HN: Google Drive as a file system

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Post by dvfjsdhgfv » Sun, Jul 01, 2018, 4:42 PM UTC

harababurel wrote: post #2

Hello 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…

Are multiple accounts supported?

Re: Show HN: Google Drive as a file system

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Post by mandeepj » Sun, Jul 01, 2018, 5:15 PM UTC

is this drive same as the drive\directory that you get when you install "OneDrive"?

Re: Show HN: Google Drive as a file system

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Post by johnboyer » Sun, Jul 01, 2018, 5:23 PM UTC

Although this is fairly nice, I would recommend Syncthing over this. It has the benefit of not relying on any third party to store your data, it's all exclusively on your devices, along with some very solid security.

Re: Show HN: Google Drive as a file system

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Post by harababurel » Sun, Jul 01, 2018, 5:37 PM UTC

dvfjsdhgfv wrote: post #32

harababurel wrote: post #2

Hello 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…

Are multiple accounts supported?

Not at the present moment. I plan to add support for this in the near future.

Re: Show HN: Google Drive as a file system

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Post by federicoponzi » Sun, Jul 01, 2018, 5:45 PM UTC

quiq wrote: post #26

harababurel wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not sure what you are referring to as implemented natively in GNOME. One crucial difference is the fact that Backup and Sync picks up local files (which exist physically on the user's machine) and uploads them to a special Drive directory in the background. GCSF does not store anything locally unless you tell it to. It simply creates a virtual directory and reports its content and file tree structure so that it match…

I think GP is referring to the Gnome Virtual File System (GVfs) [1], which has a number of pluggable backends, one of which being Google Drive. I've used it lightly and it seemed to "just work." [1] https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/gvfs

Yeah probably he was talking about that. But for my Mate, GVfs is not an option :(

Re: Show HN: Google Drive as a file system

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Post by giancarlostoro » Sun, Jul 01, 2018, 5:54 PM UTC

harababurel wrote: post #2

Hello 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…

Guessing you're basically building a FUSE filesystem with a Google Drive backend? I know KeyBase.IO did something similar accross platforms. Not sure if thats how you did it but might interest you to check out FUSE too.

Re: Show HN: Google Drive as a file system

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Post by egeozcan » Sun, Jul 01, 2018, 5:57 PM UTC

vasili111 wrote: post #20

What about Windows support?

Paid but actively developed with responsive developers: https://mountainduck.io/

Re: Show HN: Google Drive as a file system

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Post by harababurel » Sun, Jul 01, 2018, 6:00 PM UTC

brian_herman wrote: post #27

harababurel wrote: post #2

Hello 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…

This is great Linux support finally! And in rust! Awesome work man!

Thank you!

Re: Show HN: Google Drive as a file system

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Post by carewornalien » Sun, Jul 01, 2018, 6:01 PM UTC

rb2k_ wrote: post #12

harababurel wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Ditto. I'm using clone for this same function. I'm using it for casual file access (not lots of intensive access every day all day) but I'd like to know of there is any benefit to this over rclone, since as mentioned rclone has a pretty big user base..