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

Post by Spivak » Fri, Aug 10, 2018, 7:28 PM UTC

mjevans wrote: post #329

h4b4n3r0 wrote: post #325

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There is (or at least _was_ when I last tried FDE) one major fly in this ointment: you lose the ability to reboot your machine remotely. Upon restarting it required that you enter the password, which you can only do from a local keyboard.

For such systems I consider the primary root file-system to be part of the 'bootloader'. Everything that I want to keep actually secure is inside of the encrypted PVs backing LVM volumes. Yes, this presents a security risk in that someone could (offhand I think the term is 'evil maid'?) attack the root filesystem, but they could still have done that to the bootloader anyway. Remote interaction is then required to bri…

Post by ahnick » Fri, Aug 10, 2018, 7:31 PM UTC

eropple wrote: post #320

ahnick wrote: post #304

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I take your point that they use different mechanisms to provide access to files which are not fully interchangeable. With that said, I think many people probably don't really care or have a need for offline access, since nowadays people almost always have connectivity. Given this I would say in many (maybe most?) instances Keybase could replace Dropbox in practice. Also, when you consider that being offline for an ex…

> I take your point that they use different mechanisms to provide access to files which are not fully interchangeable. With that said, I think many people probably don't really care or have a need for offline access, since nowadays people almost always have connectivity. Given this I would say in many (maybe most?) instances Keybase could replace Dropbox in practice. Yeah, no, I don't think so. If my bus or train goe…

Post by Spivak » Fri, Aug 10, 2018, 7:36 PM UTC

awill wrote: post #301

messe wrote: post #195

Seems ludicrous when XFS is the default file system for RHEL.

Yep. Dropbox is going to lose some customers. Maybe it won't be too many (compared to Windows/Mac), but the customers they will lose will be their most technical.

Post by CommieBobDole » Fri, Aug 10, 2018, 7:40 PM UTC

phyzome wrote: post #346

I clicked expecting btrfs or zfs or something. Nope, NTFS is apparently "uncommon". Fascinating perspective. EDIT: Shit, misread -- those are the supported ones. Thanks for the headsmack. :-)

Post by Chilinot » Fri, Aug 10, 2018, 7:43 PM UTC

Avamander wrote: post #278

Chilinot wrote: post #142

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I would recommend Syncthing. Fully open source. It is however self-hosted. But they have clients for basically everything, including mobile phones.

It doesn't support symbolic links at all, deal breaker for me. I can't afford to start duplicating content just because it can't follow a symlink.