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Re: Show HN: Google Drive as a file system

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WhyNotHugo wrote: post #48
johnboyer wrote: post #34

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.

Syncthing is pretty much a compeltely different thing. I use Syncthing a bunch, but I don't really see any overlap between it and this tool.

From my understanding, the primary purpose of this is for backup and syncing your Google Drive files between multiple devices, which is very similar in nature to Syncthing. Is there something else that I am missing?

Re: Show HN: Google Drive as a file system

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Post by cheez »

kbumsik wrote: post #44
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…

As an undergrad thesis? Wow you are amazing! I'm wondering how it differ from the existing Google Drive FUSE project? [1] [1]: https://github.com/astrada/google-drive-ocamlfuse

I did one as well. It's a no brainer: a semester to do whatever you want as long as you get someone to agree to mark it.

Re: Show HN: Google Drive as a file system

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Post by ricktdotorg »

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.

not sure what you mean here because i pay for Drive (via Business G Suite, single user, unlimited storage) and use Filestream just fine.

Re: Show HN: Google Drive as a file system

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Post by TheNetEffect »

Fuse has been around for a while, in fact MacFuse was an implementation that was open sourced by Google, although no longer workable given the advances of the MacOS. There is now OSXFuse which is used by a few commercial applications including Transmit and the Storage Made Easy Cloud Service which uses it to support multiple backends including Google Drive and Google Storage.

On Windows there are Fuse implementations but they are not as rock solid as OSXFuse on Mac. The best commercial implementation Windows FUSE I'm aware of is CallbackFS.

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Post by jacksmith21006 »

This would be excellent to use with the new GNU/Linux support with ChromeOS. It is called Crostini. My kids HS use Chromebooks now for AP CS 1 and 2 and this would help with being able to use whatever machine instead of having to use the same. They use Crouton but would guess will switch to Crostini.

Re: Show HN: Google Drive as a file system

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Post by discreditable »

ricktdotorg wrote: post #74
discreditable wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

not sure what you mean here because i pay for Drive (via Business G Suite, single user, unlimited storage) and use Filestream just fine.

Yes, you can get it with a G Suite account, but regular @gmail.com users cannot.
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