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Re: Show HN: Google Drive as a file system

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Post by dairychris »

hemancuso wrote: post #16

Very 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!

I remember testing Expandrive out a few years ago. Great to hear you're still going strong and expanding functionality to cloud storage services too.

Haven't revisited the program since we originally tested it and found a major problem for our application, but can Expandrive now handle symlinks over sshfs correctly or does it still silently mangle them into regular files?

Re: Show HN: Google Drive as a file system

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Post by CPAhem »

Improvotter wrote: post #10
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 neat! Can I use this for multiple accounts? I've been looking for a MacOS and Linux solution for this exact problem but I'd like to use it for 3-4 Google accounts. Another question related to implementation. How easy is it to use a language like Rust for some web connection stuff like what is being used here? I've never used the language, but I've always been interested in it.

This looks very useful! We've been using Syncdocs [0] to sync multiple accounts concurrently to Google Drive.

Syncdocs does end-to-end encryption. Would it be possible to put in a PGP layer that automatically encrypts into your solution?

[0] https://syncdocs.com

Re: Show HN: Google Drive as a file system

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Post by dawnerd »

Improvotter wrote: post #9
scarface74 wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well one limitation of Google File Stream is you can only use it with a work or school account not a personal account.

It also does not support Linux afaik!

It also tends to crash a lot with large directories.

Re: Show HN: Google Drive as a file system

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Post by dawnerd »

hemancuso wrote: post #16

Very 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!

Ever get the random disconnects fixed? Haven’t used it since I sent in those log files.

Re: Show HN: Google Drive as a file system

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Post by ranfdev »

Hey, thanks for the awesome work! I always wanted something like "one drive on demand"[0] but for linux. Maybe in the future you could add an option to keep some files offline. By doing that, Linux would have a real alternative to one drive [0]https://support.office.com/en-us/article/learn-about-onedriv...

Re: Show HN: Google Drive as a file system

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Post by namibj »

Tenobrus wrote: post #60

How does this compare to `rclone`?

Seconded, there are widely deployed alternatives, specifically rclone (mount) and plexdrive. The former is, for backup purposes, better used via it's CLI, mostly due to how it relays IO errors up and the fact that many applications are too dumb to retry filesystem errors, or even not crash completely.

Re: Show HN: Google Drive as a file system

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Post by qrbLPHiKpiux »

discreditable wrote: post #43
applecrazy wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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)

Backup and Sync lacks the coolest feature of File Stream. File Stream allows you to download files when you access them instead of keeping them all on your PC. For someone like me with lots of photos, a smallish SSD, and a fast internet connection it's very convenient.

Saves a huge amount of machine resources, too. Some folders are GB’s big we have to share.
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