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Plenty of people throughout the world use Telegram. Their platform handles large groups quite well.
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Do you really need a database for this? On a unix system, you should be able to: CRUD users, CRUD files and directories, grant permissions to files or directories Is there a decade-old software that provides a UI or an API wrapper around these features for a "Google Drive" alternative? Maybe over the SAMBA protocol?
Like broadly, for all configuration Hashicorp Vault makes you do, you can achieve a much more useful set of permissions with a Samba fileshare and ACLs (certainly it makes it easy to grant targeted access to specific resources - and with IIS and Kerberos you even have an HTTP API).
Do you really need a database for this? On a unix system, you should be able to: CRUD users, CRUD files and directories, grant permissions to files or directories Is there a decade-old software that provides a UI or an API wrapper around these features for a "Google Drive" alternative? Maybe over the SAMBA protocol?
Can you name a single Google Drive clone that doesn’t use a database? Would love to see your source code for your take on this product.
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Plenty of people throughout the world use Telegram. Their platform handles large groups quite well.
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Do you really need a database for this? On a unix system, you should be able to: CRUD users, CRUD files and directories, grant permissions to files or directories Is there a decade-old software that provides a UI or an API wrapper around these features for a "Google Drive" alternative? Maybe over the SAMBA protocol?
Another issue would be permissions: if I wanted to restrict access to a file to a subset of users, I’d have to make a group for that subset. Linux supports a maximum of 65536 groups, which could quickly be exhausted for a nontrivial number of users.
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Plenty of people throughout the world use Telegram. Their platform handles large groups quite well.
It doesn't make sense for an open-source group making open-source projects and strongly promoting open-source to use such a tool for group chat. There are plenty of open-source alternatives or alternatives with no such negative association. edit: it looks even worse knowing that they have their own chat project: https://twake-chat.com that is powered by the Matrix protocol
Do you really need a database for this? On a unix system, you should be able to: CRUD users, CRUD files and directories, grant permissions to files or directories Is there a decade-old software that provides a UI or an API wrapper around these features for a "Google Drive" alternative? Maybe over the SAMBA protocol?
How would you implement things like version history or shareable URLs to files without a database? Another issue would be permissions: if I wanted to restrict access to a file to a subset of users, I’d have to make a group for that subset. Linux supports a maximum of 65536 groups, which could quickly be exhausted for a nontrivial number of users.
USB sticks, the alternative to the cloud.