Re:Spacedrive – an open source cross-platform file explorer
by awegio on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @09:37AM
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In their FAQ
> How does it work?
> Using a "Virtual Distributed Filesystem" (VDFS), in other words; a decentralized database that emulates a filesystem. It indexes hardware filesystems to create a master database that is synchronized in realtime between your devices running Spacedrive.
> What makes this different to Dropbox or Google Drive?
> It is not a storage provider, Spacedrive is simply a database that exists on top of existing storage layers, from cloud services like Dropbox, Google Drive and iCloud to physical devices and external drives you already own. It doesn't provide you more storage, rather a supercharged view of your existing storage.
So more like Syncthing? Or rather Windows File Sharing/Samba? I don't really get it
Re:Spacedrive – an open source cross-platform file explorer
by PurpleRamen on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @11:06AM
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That explanations read like it's taking in any kind of file system, local or remote, and combines them into one unified file system. Not really new, but most other file managers focus on the popular storage-services (Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, samba, ftp), and are not open source. If you can easily create plugins for any remote storage, not just the traditional file storages, or even make up your own, then it could become something promising.
From the first line of the link:
>> Spacedrive is an open source cross-platform file manager, powered by a virtual distributed filesystem (VDFS) written in Rust.
You log in because it’s a remote file system. Think Dropbox, not file explorer.