Ending support for Dropbox syncing to drives with certain uncommon file systems

Post by raverbashing » Fri, Aug 10, 2018, 2:52 PM UTC

rayiner wrote: post #100

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FTP is neither sophisticated nor a network file system. Frankly I'd take Dropbox over FTP any day of the week - FTP needs to die. Thankfully your options are not limited to either Dropbox or FTP. Thus people who want simplicity can have Dropbox (or similar) and people who want control can have sshfs or any number of other tools out there that require some assembly but also don't suffer from the numerous problems that…

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…

Post by delfinom » Fri, Aug 10, 2018, 2:55 PM UTC

XorNot wrote: post #62

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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…

It's because Linux users know what they're getting and store more data then "regular" users. It's the same reason "unlimited" storage plans from Backblaze don't have a Linux client.

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Aug 10, 2018, 2:56 PM UTC

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Similar to the Mac backup software Arq, just give me a list of object stores I can point to (Backblaze would be my first pick). Although, for my purposes, I think iCloud Files is going to turn into most of what I need from Dropbox fast enough that'll be where I move to.

For whatever reason, no other service does binary delta uploads like Dropbox, including Google drive. No other service takes advantage of the local network when syncing multiple PC's on the same LAN.

Post by jonknee » Fri, Aug 10, 2018, 2:57 PM UTC

cesarb wrote: post #168

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I guess you could say it runs of everything unless you use one of the two most popular operating systems in the world: Android and iOS.

There's syncthing for Android: https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing-android

Post by icebraining » Fri, Aug 10, 2018, 2:57 PM UTC

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> But where would you sync to? You sync across your devices (or anything where you can run a standalone binary). Phone, PC, server, whatever. It's pretty good and very stable when your packager doesn't fuck up the service file ( https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/net/syncthing/files/sy... ). > without the need to set up configure your home nas That's only needed if you need access to your files from the outside wo…

On my "ideal" requirements list is the ability to sync, encrypted, to a standard cloud backend as well. https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/issues/2647