Architecture of Nautilus, the new Dropbox search engine

Re:Architecture of Nautilus, the new Dropbox search engine by groovybits on Friday September 28, 2018 @08:37AM (#18092808)

> Dropbox offers vast support to Linux

Dropbox only supports unencrypted ext4 filesystems on Linux, so I would not use the phrase 'vast support'.

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Re:Architecture of Nautilus, the new Dropbox search engine by coldtea on Friday September 28, 2018 @09:36AM (#18093192)

Because there are many popular desktop options for Linux that don't use ext4 and non-encrypted as their default?

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Re:Architecture of Nautilus, the new Dropbox search engine by yjftsjthsd-h on Friday September 28, 2018 @09:52AM (#18093317)

RHEL family is XFS-centric, and quite a few distros (including Ubuntu) offer encryption in the default installer.

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Re:Architecture of Nautilus, the new Dropbox search engine by danieldk on Friday September 28, 2018 @10:26AM (#18093608)

ext4 on encrypted devices, such as dm-crypt/LUKS, is supported. What is not supported are encryption filesystems that are 'filesystem overlays', such as ecryptfs.

(Since I was using ZFS, I am still debating whether to stay with Dropbox after November's filesystem apocalypse.)

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Re:Architecture of Nautilus, the new Dropbox search engine by module0000 on Friday September 28, 2018 @12:13PM (#18094567)

FYI, you can still use ecrypt fs with dropbox. Put the encrypted store within your dropbox, and mount it outside your dropbox. From the dropbox point of view, you have thousands of files with gibberish as names.

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