Re: Dropbox and zfs

2018-10-28 Thread David via luv-main
On Sun, 28 Oct 2018 at 11:03, Russell Coker via luv-main wrote: > > 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

Re: Dropbox and zfs

2018-10-27 Thread Russell Coker via luv-main
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 &q

Re: Dropbox and zfs

2018-10-21 Thread Craig Sanders via luv-main
sible to format a 64GB SD card as ext4, copy the contents of my Dropbox > folder to it and then mount it at /home//Dropbox. yes, entirely possible. > Assuming this works it would leave the system drive as zfs and Dropbox in > its own ext4 flashcard. > > Are there better ways to do t

Dropbox and zfs

2018-10-21 Thread stripes theotoky via luv-main
to it and then mount it at /home//Dropbox. Assuming this works it would leave the system drive as zfs and Dropbox in its own ext4 flashcard. Are there better ways to do this and if so how? What will happen with the zfs snapshots that the box takes every minute? What is the life expectancy of an SD card used