Recently, I came across the requirements of dropbox where it can not work on certain filesystems. I am curious why. I am curious how does the underlying filesystem matters to dropbox. Shouldn't it just have need to access inodes and directory structure and be happy?
Ash HN: What does dropbox care what filesystem is it being hosted on?
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Re: Ash HN: What does dropbox care what filesystem is it being hosted on?
#2I believe Dropbox needs a filesystem that supports extended attributes to store metadata related to syncing.
Re: Ash HN: What does dropbox care what filesystem is it being hosted on?
#3I believe Dropbox needs a filesystem that supports extended attributes to store metadata related to syncing.
They really just don't want to put in any extra engineering or QA effort