On Sunday, 21 October 2018 11:38:06 PM AEDT Craig Sanders via luv-main wrote: > My partner needs to use dropbox to share files with people at work, and > her desktop machine here runs ZFS. When dropbox announced this ext4-only > thing a few months ago, I just created a 20GB ZVOL (with "zfs create -V > 20G poolname/dropbox"), formatted it as ext4, mounted it as ~/dropbox in > /etc/fstab (which is what the dropbox client is configured to use), and > chown-ed the mounted fs to her uid & gid. > > > What will happen with the zfs snapshots that the box takes every minute? > > The SD card isn't part of zpool so won't be snapshotted. if you're rsyncing > or copying it to ZFS, that's only a read (remember to use the noatime or > relatime mount option), not a write so won't affect the SD card's lifespan.
If you use a ZVOL you can make snapshots of that. If you use a filesystem other than ZFS or Ext4 you can use a loopback mount, just create a regular file of a suitable size, run mkfs.ext4, then mount -o loop. If you use BTRFS then you can have a loopback ext4 filesystem snapshotted as part of the subvol that contains it. This will be more of a problem for Windows users who aren't using NTFS as they don't have the options for loopback filesystems that we have (I'm running a corporate Dropbox account and got an email about the Windows users who aren't using NTFS). -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/ _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] https://lists.luv.asn.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luv-main
