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My one-liner Linux Dropbox client

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Re: My one-liner Linux Dropbox client

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Be more respectful. It broke my workflow which is having my $HOME on NFS which is also nuked with the stupid Dropbox change.

Add it to the already long list of software that misbehaves over NFS. Ceph/RBD with the filesystem of your choice that supports xattrs is pretty much the only way to get full application compatibility.

Why don't I just keep my data in a database then?

Re: My one-liner Linux Dropbox client

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post #153

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Be more respectful. It broke my workflow which is having my $HOME on NFS which is also nuked with the stupid Dropbox change.

Add it to the already long list of software that misbehaves over NFS. Ceph/RBD with the filesystem of your choice that supports xattrs is pretty much the only way to get full application compatibility.

NFS is widely supported and has great performance. I'm open for alternatives, but only if supported by FreeNAS where my files live.

Re: My one-liner Linux Dropbox client

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post #153

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Add it to the already long list of software that misbehaves over NFS. Ceph/RBD with the filesystem of your choice that supports xattrs is pretty much the only way to get full application compatibility.

Why don't I just keep my data in a database then?

That's essentially what Ceph does. It's just implementing a filesystem interface on top of a generic object store.

Re: My one-liner Linux Dropbox client

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post #163

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why don't I just keep my data in a database then?

That's essentially what Ceph does. It's just implementing a filesystem interface on top of a generic object store.

Yes, sorry, there was sarcasm involved.

Re: My one-liner Linux Dropbox client

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> Recently, the proprietary Dropbox Linux client dropped support for all Linux file systems except unencrypted ext4. What the heck. Anyone has more information about that? Any announcement? And why would it fail to work on an encrypted (LUKS?) ext4 FS when encryption seemed to me to sit below the filesystem (since AFAIK ext4 doesn't support encryption itself)?

It's FUD. ext4 with LUKS, which is what pretty much everyone is using on a desktop, is still working and the client supported.

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