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Wow -- did you read even a single paragraph beyond that line? Immediately after that he goes on to say: > fuse works fine if the thing being exported is some
by 1amzave 14y ago
Wow -- did you read even a single paragraph beyond that line? Immediately after that he goes on to say:
> fuse works fine if the thing being exported is some random low-use interface to a fundamentally slow device. But for something like your root filesystem? Nope. Not going to happen.
"Random low-use interface to a fundamentally slow device" (like say a remote server in some faraway "cloud") sounds exactly like the situation at hand. Compared to a "real" filesystem (like something you'd mount on /), GDrive is very much a toy, and seems to me like an ideal candidate for a FUSE filesystem.
- dfc 14y agoIs Dropbox a toy too? Or is gdrive just a toy because you have decided that it will be a low use storage device?
- 1amzave 14y ago> Is Dropbox a toy too? In this context, yes, for exactly the same reasons as GDrive. No one with any sense is going to be running a relational database or MapReduce out of either one. Note that when I say "toy" in this context it's not really anything pejorative -- I use such "toy" filesystems all the time (sshfs most often, but also encfs and s3ql), and they're awesome and highly useful. But they're the kind of thing where, say, lock contention (or hell, even being single-threaded) isn't much of a big deal because they're not performance-critical.