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They announced they were dropping support for several less common filesystems used by Linux, then they decided that was a bad move and recanted. https://news.y
by JamesCoyne 7y ago
They announced they were dropping support for several less common filesystems used by Linux, then they decided that was a bad move and recanted.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20498454 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20498454
- josteink 7y ago> several less common filesystems Better make that all the popular non-ext4 filesystems, 2 of which are default filesystems on the 2 major Linux-distributions out there (Red hat & Ubuntu). What on earth were they thinking?
- beambot 7y agoIncluding sane defaults, like encryped home directories using encryptfs on ext4.
- fencepost 7y agoDid they have to do hoop jumping with potential security ramifications to support those? Is Dropbox on Linux running entirely within the user account or is there a system level component of it with communication to a user level component? If the latter, I could see potential areas that could at least be probed for potential vulnerabilities.
- JamesCoyne 7y ago> Better make that all the popular non-ext4 filesystems... Fair.
- jjeaff 7y agoI'm sure they knew their numbers exactly. Probably are very few Dropbox users on Linux.