Comment on Nextcloud/OneDrive Files-only Replacement

• scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Nextcloud implements webdav, which you can use rclone to mount as a remote

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  • Dave@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    In my experience it’s not quite the same. Using webdav through the distro account seems that it’s fully online. And folder access or file access contacts the server.

    The virtual file experience is more of a hybrid. All the folders actually exist on disk, as well as shells for every file. If you try to open a virtual file, in the background Windows will seamlessly download it for you. At that point the file is actually on your disk. This way regularly accessed files on on your hard drive and seldom accessed ones are not, saving local hard drive space while providing an experience almost like if all the files were actually on your drive.

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• bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  You could probably do this with FUSE. Guess nobody cared to make that yet.

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  • rimu@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It exists and I’ve tried it - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davfs2

    Thing is, when an app thinks a directory is on a local disk, it does things which do not scale well over a network. e.g. reading every file in the directory to make thumbnails.

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  • Kynn@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Seafile has fuse for accessing it as a folder.

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