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Excluding XFS is an odd choice as it's very common in the server world. I'm assuming encryptfs-ext4 has some attribute issue that prevents them for doing effic

by koolba 8y ago

Excluding XFS is an odd choice as it's very common in the server world. I'm assuming encryptfs-ext4 has some attribute issue that prevents them for doing efficient deltas. That aside, what's the use case for encryptfs at all? Isn't it strictly worse than LUKS on the underlying volume or a volume file mounted via loopback?

gnufied 8y ago
I would hold my horses on xfs being unsupported claim. They explicitly said any modern file system with xattr is supported. XFS does fit that description. OP has drawn his own conclusions from the Dropbox reply.
- Vash63 8y ago
  My /home is XFS on my Arch system and I received the same popup from the Dropbox client. I can confirm that this does apply to XFS as well.
  - spacenick88 8y ago
    Same for Btrfs
- rcthompson 8y ago
  They did not explicitly say they support "any modern filesystem with xattr". They said that they support EXT4 and nothing else on Linux.
- altendo 8y ago
  The HN link is pg 2 of the forum thread; on page 1 a Dropbox employee states the following: >The supported file systems are NTFS for Windows, HFS+ or APFS for Mac, and Ext4 for Linux. >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. We will keep supporting only the most common file systems that support X-attrs, so we can ensure stability and a consistent experience. (emphasis mine)[1] XFS may support xattrs but that doesn't mean that Dropbox officially supports it. They are pretty clear on ext4 being the only supported filesystem. [1]https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Syncing-and-uploads/Linux-Dropbox-client-warn-me-that-it-ll-stop-syncing-in-Nov-why/m-p/290065/highlight/true#M42255 https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Syncing-and-uploads/Linux-Dr... Edit: added link to the proper comment in the Dropbox thread
__sr__ 8y ago
They probably don’t have a lot of users who install and use the Dropbox client on a server machine.
user5994461 8y ago
It's the default filesystem on RedHat, CentOS and Fedora. Looks like they will be dropping that.

by koolba 8y ago

gnufied 8y ago

I would hold my horses on xfs being unsupported claim. They explicitly said any modern file system with xattr is supported. XFS does fit that description. OP has drawn his own conclusions from the Dropbox reply.

Vash63 8y ago
My /home is XFS on my Arch system and I received the same popup from the Dropbox client. I can confirm that this does apply to XFS as well.
- spacenick88 8y ago
  Same for Btrfs
rcthompson 8y ago
They did not explicitly say they support "any modern filesystem with xattr". They said that they support EXT4 and nothing else on Linux.
altendo 8y ago
The HN link is pg 2 of the forum thread; on page 1 a Dropbox employee states the following: >The supported file systems are NTFS for Windows, HFS+ or APFS for Mac, and Ext4 for Linux. >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. We will keep supporting only the most common file systems that support X-attrs, so we can ensure stability and a consistent experience. (emphasis mine)[1] XFS may support xattrs but that doesn't mean that Dropbox officially supports it. They are pretty clear on ext4 being the only supported filesystem. [1]https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Syncing-and-uploads/Linux-Dropbox-client-warn-me-that-it-ll-stop-syncing-in-Nov-why/m-p/290065/highlight/true#M42255 https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Syncing-and-uploads/Linux-Dr... Edit: added link to the proper comment in the Dropbox thread

__sr__ 8y ago

They probably don’t have a lot of users who install and use the Dropbox client on a server machine.

user5994461 8y ago

It's the default filesystem on RedHat, CentOS and Fedora. Looks like they will be dropping that.