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Forum Discussion
When will online-only files work on Linux?
I need to save space on my hard drive. Online-only files would be the perfect solution, but it still does not work on linux fedora.
When will we have this solution?
edugsdf wrote:
I need to save space on my hard drive. Smart Sync would be the perfect solution, but it still does not work on linux fedora.
When will we have this solution?
At the moment, Smart Sync is only available on Windows and Mac. Dropbox has made no announcement on its availability on Linux. They usually don't discuss timelines or upcoming features until they're reaady to announce them, so we likely won't know that it's coming until it's already here, assuming that it's coming at all.
@Здравко, I don't wish to engage in a design discussion with you on a system whose internals I'm not familiar (I'm assuming you're also not privvy to Dropbox's code?). Of what I am sure is that file systems are complicated to implement well...especially those with network components. And just porting a filesystem to another platform is non-trivial.
I think the question is whether Dropbox will implement a feature on a platform we'd prefer or not. Which will largely be driven by demand. I don't know the demand for paying Linux customers for Dropbox, but I bet Dropbox does. And they'll ultimately make the decision to proceed or not.
I think what is most helpful is simply telling them we're interested and getting others who also want the feature to do the same.
