No 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.
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Ending support for Dropbox syncing to drives with certain uncommon file systems
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#32No 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.
Just in case anyone doesn't recognize this quote, it is from the 2007 hacker news post about Dropbox: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
Are you telling me that I could build a startup with 3 lines of bash? (EDIT: and a fancy easy windows version)
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#34I basically only use Dropbox because it is supported on Linux. Also its syncing technology is sooo much better than Google Drive you would think Drive was built by interns. However, they are taking their sweet time with newer features like Smart Sync. It's disappointing because I'm paying for these features and yet they're not supported on one of the platforms my whole company uses. All in all I really hope Dropbox doesn't keep chipping away at Linux - I fought hard internally to use it and I don't want to be proven wrong.
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#35> 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
That statement is bit dubious. The next line also says:
> A supported file system is required as Dropbox relies on extended attributes (X-attrs) to identify files in the Dropbox folder and keep them in sync. We will keep supporting only the most common file systems that support X-attrs, so we can ensure stability and a consistent experience.
Certainly XFS supports xattr and hence ideally should be supported. I don't know why they singled out ext4. I am running Dropbox on ext4 LUKS encrypted partition and I haven't seen the warning yet.
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#36No 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.
More seriously: Syncthing exists, and it is beautiful.
I set my grandmother up with Synctrayzor and she doesn't know the difference between that and Dropbox.
It is missing the ability to share things with a direct link, or share a repository or folder "easily" (read: in the same way it's done with Dropbox), but the trade off has been worth it for me.
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#37I'm fine with this cuz I'm using ext4, but why? As people in the thread say Dropbox have been supporting those filesystems without any problems for ten years.
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#38It's a shame that btrfs seems to be dead in the water. I guess nobody with the resources to build such a filesystem actually needs its snapshotting and integrity features at the filesystem level?
btrfs supports xattr, it's also activly developed - there are always improvements in each new kernel release. Personally I'm avoiding it because I've got burned enough times with btrfs and the current >0.7.x ZFS on Linux versions with ABD work very well for me.
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#39It'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 syste…
Home directory encryption via ecryptfs is now the default in most Ubuntu variants, and it would be insane not to attempt to support it.
That said, given that my Dropbox subscription just renewed (and that Linux is pretty much the only reason I'm still using it, since there is no OneDrive client I can rely on), I am really sad this seems to be a future direction for Dropbox.
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#40Thanks for the info.
https://www.sherekhudahazratali.com/2016/01/ya-nabi-salam-al...