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A comment on Dropbox Brings Back Support for ZFS, XFS, Btrfs and eCryptFS on Linux. Parent comment

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 But, in my experience, Mac versions of Linux tools are not A) Posix compliant, B) outdated, C) don't have the exact same functionality, and/or D) Abandoned.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 But, in my experience, Mac versions of Linux tools are not A) Posix compliant, B) outdated, C) don't have the exact same functionality, and/or D) Abandoned.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