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		hiccuphippo on Aug 10, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ending support for Dropbox syncing to drives with ... Why do they need to directly support the underlying filesystem? Can't they have support for the high level fs api? Sure not as performant but at least will work.

xxpor on Aug 10, 2018 [–]

read the post. they need xattrs support from the file system. now, why btrfs wouldn't work is beyond me.

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