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

Re:Dropbox Brings Back Support for ZFS, XFS, Btrfs and eCryp... by munchbunny on Monday July 22, 2019 @05:44PM (#20502599)

I'm not sure how your analogy works.

1. Dropbox isn't just storage. If it was just storage, it would never have taken off. The reason Dropbox makes tons of money is because it's actually selling a process. Still commoditized, but it's not as lightweight as toilet paper.

2. If you feel like creating an ext4 partition is analogous to remodeling your bathroom, I would question where you choose to hold strong opinions.

I think you have your analogy backwards. I'd happily switch out the toilet paper brand (the file system on one partition) in my bathroom (how my team and I manage shared documents) if that's what it takes to make the bathroom fit its purpose.

Besides, Dropbox didn't kill Linux support, they scaled it down to ext4, which is a perfectly inoffensive choice of file system for an end user.

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Re:Dropbox Brings Back Support for ZFS, XFS, Btrfs and eCryp... by michaelmrose on Monday July 22, 2019 @06:37PM (#20502931)

Zfs has a lot of features over ext4 its not remotely equivalent.

Replacing this functionality on ext4 requires an entire stack of alternatives. Worse if you opt to use zfs and ext 4 you now need 2 complete stacks or to use an inferior set of tools to be compatible with a commodity service.

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