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Yeah, this is probably about cutting out the big data users. They don't even offer an unlimited plan, but they probably noticed that certain linux users were us
by vxNsr 8y ago
Yeah, this is probably about cutting out the big data users. They don't even offer an unlimited plan, but they probably noticed that certain linux users were using most of their 2tb plans while everyone else wasn't.
Lose the most active users, keep the ones paying for something they don't need.
- OskarS 8y agoDropbox for Business is unlimited, isn't it?
- crankylinuxuser 8y agoNo service is "unlimited". Its a marketing lie. Why? Because there's always exceptions for 'abuse of service' and other exemptions. The only time something is unlimited is if you do it yourself. Then you only have yourself to lean on.
- scott_s 8y agoAre you and XorNot guessing, or are you basing this off a statement they made? Because the alternate explantation I assumed is that they don't want to continue maintaining a bunch of different filesystems. That complicates development quite a bit (because you need to have developers who know the quirks of the file systems) and testing a lot (because all changes have to be tested on all variants, and it becomes multiplicative when a platform has multiple file systems).
- Aaargh20318 8y ago> the alternate explantation I assumed is that they don't want to continue maintaining a bunch of different filesystems. But they don't have to maintain a bunch of different filesystems. That's the OS's job. From the application's PoV there shouldn't be any difference between these filesystems, all they need to do is check if the required feature (xattrs) is enabled for a certain FS and that's all.
- scott_s 8y agoYou still need to test. And I'm skeptical that there is no observable difference from the application level.
- detaro 8y agoThat certain subset seems to most likely to adapt their setups to just use ext4 if that's what's supported?