OneDrive-style experience ?

# Project 💭

• implement something like copy parti
• and a fuse filesytem to obtain onedrive / syncthing caching experience.

# Notes on implementations constraint

• offload mechanism cannot be supported by a filesystem directly (kind of caching)
• if allowing multiple client to connect:
  • a merge / conflict strategy must be handled

# Rclone + MinIO ⮺ 🚧 💭

• use Rclone as sync mechanism from client to a S3 compatible storage
• use MinIO - to self host a s3 compatible storage
  • data store by Minio are not directly accessible - but are sharded and have good data properties.
  • You can recover data without MinIO if needed (with effort)

Notes:

• not to be confused with rclone serve s3 which make rclone emulate a S3 backend and is still exprimental

# CopyParty ⮺

turn almost any device into a file server with resumable uploads/downloads using any web browser - github

Good performance / implemented in python

# Seafile

Seafile exchange block with client, but they are not materialize as native filesystem on server side (and are opaque to the OS).

• have a seafile server
  • pro is free for 3 users and can use a PostgresDB
• add SeaDrive - a fuse filesystem

# Deploy Seafile with Podman ⮺

On the server side, Seafile stores the files in the libraries in an internal format. Seafile has its own representation of directories and files (similar to Git)

Alternative

• OneDrive clients for Linux

# NFS onedrive - Failed ⛑

From raffinement with ChatGPT there is no equivalent solution:

• some don’t support NFS
• some don’t support offline
• some don’t garantie proper sync when writing offline.