Dropbox Brings Back Support For ZFS, XFS, Btrfs And eCryptFS On Linux

'Speaking of Dropbox, the online storage cloud service has enabled
support for ZFS and XFS on 64-bit Linux systems, and eCryptFS and
Btrfs on all Linux systems. The move comes after it recently pulled
support for all file storage systems on Linux except Ext4. From a
report:

Dropbox stopped supporting folder syncing to drives with filesystems
it deemed "uncommon", which on Linux meant anything but Ext4,
upsetting quite a few users. The reason cited for this was that "a
supported file system is required as Dropbox relies on extended
attributes (X-attrs) to identify files in the Dropbox folder and keep
them in sync", which doesn't really make sense since there are many
filesystems that support xattr (extended attributes) on Linux. After
this change was announced, various workarounds started to appear
online, including one that I posted on Linux Uprising. There was even
a new unofficial, open source Dropbox client developed for this reason
(which is also much lighter than the official client by the way). But
this didn't last long though, as last week, the Dropbox 77.3.127 beta
changelog says that Dropbox has added back support for ZFS (on 64-bit
systems only), XFS (on 64bit systems only), Btrfs and eCryptFS.'

-- source: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/19/07/22/1534200

Cheers, Peter
-- 
Peter Reutemann
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Waikato, NZ
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