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It'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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I noticed Dropbox started setting their own xattrs on my files a year or two ago if I recall correctly. My guess at the time was that they were using it for cheaper rename detection, using an xattr UUID, instead of using heuristics to compare {inode, btime, mtime, size, name, folder}. In other words, they would match up the xattr UUID across CREATE and DELETE events to merge them into RENAME events. Missing RENAME ev…
Or you keep a local db of synced files and compare hashes
TL;DR: Dropbox tells with a very unhelpful popup: "Move Dropbox location - Dropbox will stop syncing in November" . And on the forums, dropboxer Jay precises that starting Nov. 7, 2018, they're limiting support to Windows / NTFS, macOS / HFS+ & APFS, linux/Ext4. They say missing X-attrs support is what guides dropping other fs. They didn't answer yet if displaying this message to users of common-through-Ubuntu Ext4+e…
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Would you kindly provide recommendations? I'm looking for a sync service which can run on windows AND linux (which is why onedrive and google drive are out)...and i'm willing to pay a fair monthly fee.
I would recommend Syncthing. Fully open source. It is however self-hosted. But they have clients for basically everything, including mobile phones.
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Probably not as such users are just a vocal minority, and probably not enough to use as a consumer group.
And they really hate paying for stuff. Doubly so for things they think are simple and can be done "by myself".
If you look at the filename on the linux download is says 2015 in the filename. Has the linux client gone untouched for 3 years?
For those interested in open source alternatives, syncthing, NextCloud (fork of ownCloud), and Seafile are some of the big names in this space, as others have mentioned. Personally I'm on syncthing. It's one of the best pieces of software I've ever used. My only complaint is it's not really instantaneous for me. In theory it works with inotify, but I've never quite been able to get it to work. I'm confident it will e…
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I’m not talking about FTP, which isn’t a network file system. I’m talking about NFS, AFS, and sucessors in that line of development. E.g. https://www.slideshare.net/mobile/snehcp/coda-file-system . I’m literally talking about the theory of the paper by Richard Gabriel ( https://www.dreamsongs.com/RiseOfWorseIsBetter.html ) which is that worse solutions often win because it takes too much time to bring a good solution…
In that case it might have been helpful if you stated that you were shifting the context away from FTP; as was the context in the GPs comment. ;) NFS and AFS (from what limited I know of it) are more designed for local networks thus to leverage NFS over a WAN you'd then need to tunnel your connection (eg via SSH or VPN). So while there is obviously overlap between them and Dropbox I wouldn't really say the two are al…
Well, there is an sshfs FUSE filesystem, for what it's worth