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10 years since Google said to “hang tight” about Linux support for Google Drive
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Re: 10 years since Google said to “hang tight” about Linux support for Google Drive
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
When I worked at Google, almost all developer workstations were running Linux. That alone really should be plenty of justification for having such a client. They did not.
As a Google employee, you almost never need to store anything on Drive, do you? I'm struggling to think of a "sync my files" workflow where corp Drive would have been the best solution if only there had been a Linux client.
As a Google employee using Linux, the kind of files I stored in Drive were rarely useful synced to my filesystem.
Re: 10 years since Google said to “hang tight” about Linux support for Google Drive
#53Insync works well but it is pay to play
Re: 10 years since Google said to “hang tight” about Linux support for Google Drive
#54The Drive API is pretty stable. So given that we're talking about Linux, the immediate question that comes to my mind is "why hasn't somebody written it themselves?"
Perhaps Google sees no benefit in building a service in a space where users can self serve making it.
Re: 10 years since Google said to “hang tight” about Linux support for Google Drive
#55GCS works. For my own use it is just much simpler to use GCS
Right. Don't they have a fuse file system that they actively maintain?
There is some guy there that maintains an ocaml based fuse google-drive client. It works okay. I'm not sure if he volunteers to maintain or is paid. I have moved on to the isync product but the ocaml opensource project is still there and maintained last I checked.
Re: 10 years since Google said to “hang tight” about Linux support for Google Drive
#56What's it supposed to do? Aren't "rclone mount" and the OS file manager sufficient?
... exactly what I was thinking. Discovering rclone mount finally let me abandon the file sync paradigm and return to my workflows of yesteryear when NFS was still the dominant file sharing system on Unix.
Re: 10 years since Google said to “hang tight” about Linux support for Google Drive
#57Times have changed in many more ways than one. These days I greatly prefer to own my data more directly, which I accomplish using a NAS. I don’t use Dropbox OR Google Drive, I use Syncthing, which can do stuff that neither of those could ever dream of in terms of syncing between machines. Not only do I not want Google Drive, I don’t even want anything like it. That said, I totally get why it’s still important. I do u…
I’m curious, what do you use to access files on your NAS? I’ve used Samba for forever but it’s always been kind of annoying to deal with permissions, and whilst running AD would probably solve that, I then have to deal with running AD. I’m tempted to try switching to NFS instead.
Re: 10 years since Google said to “hang tight” about Linux support for Google Drive
#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
As a Google employee, you almost never need to store anything on Drive, do you? I'm struggling to think of a "sync my files" workflow where corp Drive would have been the best solution if only there had been a Linux client.
As a Google employee using Linux, the kind of files I stored in Drive were rarely useful synced to my filesystem.
To be clear, I would’ve preferred something more like a FUSE implementation, which thankfully exists for someone outside of Google.
There is FileStream or whatever it’s called, but it’s never coming to Linux so who cares.
Re: 10 years since Google said to “hang tight” about Linux support for Google Drive
#59Would the ChromeOS implementation work if they packaged it, and if not, why not?