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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)?
Since it is being used with systemd a systemd path unit could be used to monitor the file system removing the need to use entr.
Thanks, didn't know systemd can do that [0]! I must grudgingly admit that it seems to be quite useful, though I still don't like having a single app doing all that stuff. But that's off topic... :) [0] https://blog.andrewkeech.com/posts/170809_path.html
Also, if you have an older linux distro that predates inotify(), there's similar functionality within auditd that will log changes to a file with a tag of your choosing, then you can tail the file.
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Could be problematic if the image is huge.
You could use something like gocryptfs that encrypts at the file level
Also includes first-class support for cloud syncing apps.
Dropbox is a no no for one simple reason - there is no end to end encryption. Unless I don't know something? I wouldn't want a disgruntled employee to fiddle with my files.
I don't understand why they don't have it even after all these years.
> 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)?
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Is there any Dropbox-like service that lets you control your own private keys, without resorting to the ugliness of uploading an encrypted image to Dropbox?
I think syncthing wins here. Not at rest, mind, but since you control the endpoints that should be okay.
> 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)?
Doesn’t work on ZFS either. I dropped Dropbox because of this.
> 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.