Ending support for Dropbox syncing to drives with certain uncommon file systems
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Re: Ending support for Dropbox syncing to drives with certain uncommon file systems
#2Wow, I'm glad I deleted my dropbox account a while ago and now use gasp hard drives and usb sticks and github to put up all my opensource code and bitbucket for closed source stuff.
Re: Ending support for Dropbox syncing to drives with certain uncommon file systems
#3Seeing how an encrypted home directory is as good as the default option in Ubuntu, and seeing as it already works now, this seems like a dumb move.
This is a shame because I just started using Dropbox significantly more to back up shared photos. Time to search for something else, I guess.
Re: Ending support for Dropbox syncing to drives with certain uncommon file systems
#4> we’re ending support for Dropbox syncing to drives with certain uncommon file systems. The supported file systems... and Ext4 for Linux.
Yeah this is not how it works. This is not how any of this works
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#5Their reasoning of "you need a filesystem which supports extended attributes" sounds legit.
Time for some of us to start work on adding extended attributes to more filesystems?
Re: Ending support for Dropbox syncing to drives with certain uncommon file systems
#6Seeing how an encrypted home directory is as good as the default option in Ubuntu, and seeing as it already works now , this seems like a dumb move. This is a shame because I just started using Dropbox significantly more to back up shared photos. Time to search for something else, I guess.
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Re: Ending support for Dropbox syncing to drives with certain uncommon file systems
#7Is this a new business opportunity?
Re: Ending support for Dropbox syncing to drives with certain uncommon file systems
#8It's not encrypted ext4, it's ecryptfs (which acts as a separate layer entirely, creating a virtual encrypted filesystem on top of ext4) - probably doesn't support some inotify feature or some extended attributes that aren't set correctly when used through ecryptfs.
If instead you used dmcrypt and encrypted the whole device or partition you'd probably have no issue as it looks just like any other EXT4 FS to the system.
Would be a lot better if they specified what features they need the underlying FS to support.
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#9No problem, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem.
Re: Ending support for Dropbox syncing to drives with certain uncommon file systems
#10The kicker is in the couching - dropping support for "uncommon filesystems" - of which their definition includes the default filesystem used by the most popular distro. Just dumb or wilfully ignorant?