On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 4:15 PM, Richard Hipp <[email protected]> wrote:
> I don't know how closely a DropBox folder follows correct (published) > filesystem semantics. If DropBox is doing some no-standard things, then it > might be possible to corrupt the repository if it lives in a DropBox > folder. I just don't know. > > The above is how Fossil is *designed* to work. Can you get it to also > work using your DropBox approach? Maybe. It will require some > experimentation, I suppose, to determine whether or not DropBox is pulling > any dirty tricks that get the underlying SQLite storage engine confused. > Perhaps others on this list can give a better answer. > To the best of my knowledge, Dropbox is not a "virtual" filesystem. It is a regular folder in the regular filesystem that is managed by the OS. The only "special" thing about it is that Dropbox registers with the OS to be notified of changes to this folder, and then syncs these changes, using regular file read/write mechanisms supplied by the filesystem/OS. -- ˙uʍop-ǝpısdn sı ɹoʇıuoɯ ɹnoʎ 'sıɥʇ pɐǝɹ uɐɔ noʎ ɟı
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