Show HN: Google Drive as a file system

Re:Show HN: Google Drive as a file system by nkkollaw on Sunday July 01, 2018 @11:21AM (#17435922)

I don't get it. Isn't this the same as what implemented natively in GNOME, or with Backup and Sync on Windows and MacOS?

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Re:Show HN: Google Drive as a file system by harababurel on Sunday July 01, 2018 @11:40AM (#17435988)

Not sure what you are referring to as implemented natively in GNOME.

One crucial difference is the fact that Backup and Sync picks up local files (which exist physically on the user's machine) and uploads them to a special Drive directory in the background. GCSF does not store anything locally unless you tell it to. It simply creates a virtual directory and reports its content and file tree structure so that it matches whatever exists on Drive.

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Re:Show HN: Google Drive as a file system by quiq on Sunday July 01, 2018 @12:03PM (#17436106)

I think GP is referring to the Gnome Virtual File System (GVfs) [1], which has a number of pluggable backends, one of which being Google Drive. I've used it lightly and it seemed to "just work."

[1] https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/gvfs

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Re:Show HN: Google Drive as a file system by federicoponzi on Sunday July 01, 2018 @01:45PM (#17436580)

Yeah probably he was talking about that. But for my Mate, GVfs is not an option :(

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