It provides access to APIs so your OS has driver emulation for all kinds of file system drivers that are otherwise not natively supported on your OS. In case you don't know, OSX Fuse is a well-established kernel extension not just for MacOS but also for Windows and Linux as well. They both seem to offer the same function but the developer of GCSF explains on Reddit why GCSF is supposed to be faster. If you are looking for a clean way to create a virtual file system on your computer rather than an synced folder (which honestly sounds like more your cup of tea) AND preserve things like Posix info (file ownership and mode, for instance), there are two open source projects that make use of Fuse called GCSF and google-drive-ocamlfuse. The preservation of Posix info (ownership and file mode, for instance) may continue to be an issue because so few cloud providers actually support that and I am not sure if this is being addressed, so caveat emptor in that respect.
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Also, they have a massive update around the corner with odrive2 which does some other really cool stuff with aggregating cloud storage more invisibly which is great for people who like patching together free cloud storage plans to create one coherent drive. I doesn't support Posix info (yet) but it allows you to pick and choose which folders you want fully synced and which you want synced on demand. Anyway, if you are looking for something a bit more specific to your needs where you Google Drive is a literal drive, there are other ways (and in my opinion, better ways) of making use of your Google Drive storage as true file-level storage that behaves as you would expect a local file system.įirst off, I will mention odrive which is a multcloud consolidator that works really well, has Linux support, and a CLI-only version. If you don't fully understand how these work together it is easy make the mistake of making copies of copies of copies of your photos which is really painful if, say, you're a Google Photos user. Us lowly civilians (even if you pay for storage) still have to use Google's seemingly-inefficient Backup-and-Sync which is a bit of a dog's breakfast in how it has multiple sync paradigms with Drive Mode, Backup Mode, and Photo Sync mode. FWIW, the "new" Google Drive Sync is only for enterprise gSuite users.
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