Dropbox Brings Back Support for ZFS, XFS, Btrfs and eCryptFS on Linux

Re:Dropbox Brings Back Support for ZFS, XFS, Btrfs and eCryp... by brightball on Monday July 22, 2019 @01:46PM (#20500386)

Yes, this. I often have this same conversation with restaurants who don’t have gluten free options. You certainly aren’t obligated to do so, but if you don’t have any and there is a single person in our dinner group who needs them...our entire group goes elsewhere.

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Re:Dropbox Brings Back Support for ZFS, XFS, Btrfs and eCryp... by VeninVidiaVicii on Monday July 22, 2019 @02:01PM (#20500513)

While this is true, I think a more subtle reason to support Linux is the open-source scripts devs setup that may be mission critical.

I work in a bioinformatics lab, and I access Dropbox through the command prompt and do a lot of file cleanup through scripts for dozens of researchers, which is impossible on Windows or Apple.

This BTRFS reversal last year was a nightmare for everyone's research even though I'm the only one who uses Linux.

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Re:Dropbox Brings Back Support for ZFS, XFS, Btrfs and eCryp... by AceJohnny2 on Monday July 22, 2019 @04:11PM (#20501853)

> which is impossible on [..] Apple.

Out of curiosity, why is that? macOS does provide a Unix environment and Bash & Zsh shells. (and Homebrew or MacPorts are package managers that can provide updated versions of whatever)

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Re:Dropbox Brings Back Support for ZFS, XFS, Btrfs and eCryp... by VeninVidiaVicii on Monday July 22, 2019 @08:28PM (#20503473)

I suppose it's possible in the sense that anything is possible. But, in my experience, Mac versions of Linux tools are not A) Posix compliant, B) outdated, C) don't have the exact same functionality, and/or D) Abandoned.

I use Linux because the scripts are easily moved between the cluster computers and my computers, but I suppose YMMV

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Re:Dropbox Brings Back Support for ZFS, XFS, Btrfs and eCryp... by acdha on Monday July 22, 2019 @09:20PM (#20503718)

> But, in my experience, Mac versions of Linux tools are not A) Posix compliant, B) outdated, C) don't have the exact same functionality, and/or D) Abandoned.

You’d definitely want to use Hombrew: you can get the GNU utilities instead of the BSD ones Apple tends to ship, at the latest versions, and it’s a single command to update everything.

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Re:Dropbox Brings Back Support for ZFS, XFS, Btrfs and eCryp... by TheSpiceIsLife on Monday July 22, 2019 @06:48PM (#20503001)

Windows, what about PowerShell? I've not used it extensively, but have heard good things.

Or just use Python across all three platforms?

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Re:Dropbox Brings Back Support for ZFS, XFS, Btrfs and eCryp... by VeninVidiaVicii on Monday July 22, 2019 @08:32PM (#20503489)

Honestly it's not really feasible to use Python when basic Linux tools like comm, or dos2linux, which take literally just a few characters, recreating the functionality in Python would be a headache.

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Re:Dropbox Brings Back Support for ZFS, XFS, Btrfs and eCryp... by TheSpiceIsLife on Monday July 22, 2019 @10:16PM (#20503924)

Yeah, I don' really know hey, I'm just a metal fabricator by trade.

My point was more generally about: surely tools exist on the different operating system to achieve similar outcomes?

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