Any comparisons to rclone's gdrive integration?
Seems that rclone probably has the biggest userbase of the "google drive fuse mount" tools.
Re:Show HN: Google Drive as a file system
by carewornalien on Sunday July 01, 2018 @02:01PM
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Ditto. I'm using clone for this same function. I'm using it for casual file access (not lots of intensive access every day all day) but I'd like to know of there is any benefit to this over rclone, since as mentioned rclone has a pretty big user base..
Re:Show HN: Google Drive as a file system
by harababurel on Sunday July 01, 2018 @03:24PM
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I haven't personally used rclone so far. I will look into it and see how it compares to GCSF.
I made a comparison between the two projects in sections 4.2 and 4.3 of my thesis [0]. In short, GCSF tends to be faster in several cases (listing files recursively, reading large files from Drive). The caching strategy it uses also leads to very fast reads (x4-7 improvement compared to google-drive-ocamlfuse) for files that have been cached, at the cost of using more RAM.
On the other hand, I arrived at the conclusion that google-drive-ocamlfuse provides a better overall experience, as it already has an active community behind it. My goal with GCSF is to more or less close the gap between the two projects and reach the same level of functionality.
[0] https://sergiu.ml/~sergiu/thesis.pdf