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Dropbox Project Infinite

743 点作者 maguay大约 9 年前

82 条评论

antoncohen大约 9 年前
This feature is implemented at a low level, and works on the command line.<p>For example if you have a directory that is all stored in the cloud you can `cd` to it without any network delay, you can do `ls -lh` and see a list with real sizes without a delay (e.g., see that an ISO is 650 MB), and you can do `du -sh` and see that all the files are taking up zero space.<p>If you open a file in that directory, it will open, even from command line, then do `du -sh` and see that that file is now taking up space, while all the others in the directory are not.<p>You can right-click to pin files and directories to be stored locally, and right-click to send them back to the cloud so they don&#x27;t take up space.<p>This is actually very different than traditional network file systems like SMB, NFS, WebDAV, and SSHFS. With a normal network file system over the WAN you would have major latency problems trying to `cd` and `ls` the remote file system. Most of them also don&#x27;t have any ability to cache files locally when offline, or the ability to manually select which files are stored locally and which are remote. AFS does have some similar capabilities.
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dkopi大约 9 年前
If any of the dropbox product managers are following - I would REALLY appreciate this in the individual paid version as well.<p>Given a laptop with an SSD&lt;1TB , I still want to be able to make use of the 1TB I&#x27;m paying for. Its currently possible by letting an entire folder upload to DB, and then unsyncing it. It stays on DB, but gets removed from the local drive.<p>I would love to be able to see those unsynced folders locally, with the same cloud icon announced here.
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pritambaral大约 9 年前
This was really exciting to read. The ability to seamlessly integrate with the OS. We already do it with SSHFS and NFS; but bringing Dropbox&#x27;s sync, versioning, and offline caching would be great.<p>Then I saw that it&#x27;s not available on Linux. Which is really surprising, since supporting arbitrary filesystems is IMO dead-easy on Linux, and the easiest of the three desktop OSes. And since our company uses only Linux workstations (except for the designers), this is immediately unavailable to us. This is disheartening.
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bobsoap大约 9 年前
This sounds like the exact feature I&#x27;ve been desperately looking for, for quite some time now, watching Microsoft discontinue online-only files in Onedrive because &quot;it confused customers&quot;, and shaking my head at the blatant lack of this kind of thing everywhere...<p>Until just recently, when I found odrive[1]. Not affiliated with them in any way, just a fan - if you don&#x27;t want to wait until Dropbox decides to launch this publicly, check it out. It works with Dropbox&#x2F;Google Drive&#x2F;OneDrive&#x2F;CreativeCloud&#x2F;what-have-you and does exactly what Dropbox Infinite promises to do, except that it&#x27;s seasoned, working, practically bug-free (that I can tell), and, well, available now.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.odrive.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.odrive.com&#x2F;</a>
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dkyc大约 9 年前
At first I thought <i>&quot;Well, Dropbox storage is 5x as expensive as hard drive space, so what&#x27;s the point?&quot;</i>. What I didn&#x27;t see was the team use case: It&#x27;s actually brilliant to have access to every document of all of my colleagues at all times, without saving all that stuff locally, or taking forever sync. This is really amazing.<p>The problem with our current shared team folders is that you need to make a deliberate effort to share something with the team. That means when you want to <i>pull</i> information from the shared space, you&#x27;re very likely to get an outdated copy. Thanks to 1.) no storage constraints and 2.) deep OS-integration, all files can actually be always up-to-date with Dropbox Infinite. That really sounds cool.
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_kyran大约 9 年前
This is huge. The biggest reason for me to not store more content on dropbox, is that it always comes with the trade-off of taking up space on my local drive (128gb) as well.<p>Sure there&#x27;s selective sync, but that&#x27;s an all-or nothing approach.<p>I like the way Google approaches this with their Google Photos service. X most recent photos are stored locally, and everything else is pulled down on the fly as you search&#x2F;browse for them.
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megapatch大约 9 年前
What happens if the corporate virus scanner kicks in and reads all listed files? Also, can I un-download files I just checked once and don&#x27;t need to have synchronized any more?<p>Theroretically this is nice, practically it will render som unpleasant surprises.
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rethab大约 9 年前
Mac and Windows means &#x27;universal compatibility&#x27;? :(
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jasonkester大约 9 年前
The only feature I want in addition to what Dropbox already gives me is a little box I can check that says &quot;Never Delete Anything.&quot;<p>That&#x27;s it.<p>Just never give me the option of permanently erasing an entire folder of photos from every machine I&#x27;ve ever owned just because I mess up your wacky Selective Sync workflow.<p>I understand that there exist people who actually want all their machines to sync destructive changes, but I&#x27;ve never met one of them. More often, I see people lamenting that they deleted something important a year ago, thinking it was still backed up, but now it&#x27;s gone.<p>So yeah, you&#x27;re not a backup service, you&#x27;re just sync. I get that. But please please be a little <i>less</i> syncy and a little more backupy and you&#x27;ll fit the worldview of a lot more people.<p>It sounds like this is a step towards this (and four thousand steps past it), so at least we&#x27;re getting close.
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kyriakos大约 9 年前
Microsoft had this feature built in windows 8 &#x2F; 8.1 and removed it in Windows 10 cause it &quot;confused&quot; customers. Hope this will nudge them to bring it back.
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yoz-y大约 9 年前
The word &#x27;revolutionary&#x27; definitely deprecated in the past years. Anyways, this is great news as I&#x27;ll no longer have to default to the website search for selectively non-synced files.
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CamatHN大约 9 年前
My original thought was, so its a network drive huh? But when you think about the fact that everyone has 128GB Surfaces they take everywhere remotely this is really powerful and I can image a lot easier to administer. Love how they have integrated and just added a simple icon. Well done Dropbox
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andr大约 9 年前
I really hope this is available to personal accounts, and not only business, as the blog post sort of implies. With the average laptop being 256GB and the Dropbox paid account being 1TB, that&#x27;s badly needed.
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canistr大约 9 年前
A couple of usability questions that don&#x27;t appear to have been addressed in the video:<p>- on a Mac, if I press the spacebar to show the quick preview and start navigating down the list, will this trigger downloading of all the files?<p>- how are older files cached? Do we simply unselect devices to remove them locally? At least with Selective Sync, I can remove files eating up my hard drive (very important on devices with 128GB SSDs&#x2F;HDs or less). It&#x27;s much clearer in terms of what&#x27;s on disk and how to manage it with Selective Sync. With Project Infinite, I&#x27;m wondering how one would remove files locally without fully deleting the file across the Dropbox folder for every other team member.
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songgao大约 9 年前
Glad to know Dropbox is supporting streaming (as opposed to sync&#x27;ing) model. It didn&#x27;t make much sense to keep large files shared with me in Dropbox otherwise.<p>Keybase Filesystem [0] has been also doing this from the beginning.<p>&gt;“Distributed” means you can access it from any device.<p>&gt; “Filesystem” means that there is no sync model -- files stream in and out on demand. Among other things, that means that files on KBFS don’t take up space on your devices.<p>Plus the files are automatically signed, and end-to-end encrypted if in &#x2F;keybase&#x2F;private :D<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;keybase.io&#x2F;docs&#x2F;kbfs&#x2F;understanding_kbfs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;keybase.io&#x2F;docs&#x2F;kbfs&#x2F;understanding_kbfs</a>
radarsat1大约 9 年前
What I want from a network-based file system is some level of control over the caching. What I&#x27;ve found with FUSE-based file systems (on Linux) is that often they lock up my terminal. All it takes is a &quot;cd&quot; or an &quot;ls&quot; and suddenly I can&#x27;t type anything until the network responds, which is not always instantaneous -- can&#x27;t even Ctrl-C, because the program is blocked in the driver.<p>I want to be able to tell when a command is going to block, or respond immediately with an error so that I can re-issue the command in a deferred manner. Having the command line lock-up because of filesystem latency is a bad user experience.
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amelius大约 9 年前
Nice. But shouldn&#x27;t we be having open standards for such a basic part of our infrastructures?
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seanalltogether大约 9 年前
I&#x27;m glad to see they are finally addressing this problem. One of the largest requested features has been better management of selective sync folders [1] and many users have left for other solutions since they still haven&#x27;t fixed it in the existing client.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dropboxforum.com&#x2F;hc&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;community&#x2F;posts&#x2F;201812255-Stop-auto-inheriting-new-folders-when-using-selective-sync" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dropboxforum.com&#x2F;hc&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;community&#x2F;posts&#x2F;201812...</a>
tbrock大约 9 年前
Somewhat related: how reliable are SSHfs and other fuse filesystems on macs and on Linux these days?<p>- On the Mac I&#x27;m worried about using fuse in general. Stability, reliability, Mac OS X being a hostile environment as its not &quot;blessed&quot; by Apple.<p>- On Linux I&#x27;m more worried about the general nature of SSH as the basis for a filesystem. Which also applies to the running it on a Mac.<p>The reason I ask is because theoretically you could spin up a t2 micro with a 1tb EBS volume and forget the whole Dropbox thing, mount it wherever you please, whatever.<p>Obviously there are drawbacks, it&#x27;s not local (fast), it doesn&#x27;t have all the collaboration features of Dropbox, etc. but for relatively cold storage (colder than I need on a local ssd) that I want to access somewhat frequently, SSHfs seems like it could be fine.<p>I&#x27;m not sure how easy it would be to corrupt, etc and I&#x27;m not sure about the two things I mention above. Hoping someone here knows.
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kevinSuttle大约 9 年前
If you&#x27;d like a solution that the NSA doesn&#x27;t have backdoors to: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;keybase.io&#x2F;docs&#x2F;kbfs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;keybase.io&#x2F;docs&#x2F;kbfs</a>
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equalsnil大约 9 年前
I originally thought this is how Dropbox functioned years ago. Learning that you had to actually have every file on your hard disk if you wanted it in the cloud really put me off from using Dropbox for any significant amount of data.<p>As so many have stated before me, they better release this for everyone. It isn&#x27;t a revolutionary feature, it&#x27;s pretty basic, even if the behind the scenes technicals are complicated.
lispython大约 9 年前
This remind me Plan 9&#x27;s &quot;single most important feature&quot;[1]:<p>&gt; all mounted file servers export the same file-system-like interface, regardless of the implementation behind them. Some might correspond to local file systems, some to remote file systems accessed over a network, some to instances of system servers running in user space (like the window system or an alternate network stack), and some to kernel interfaces. To users and client programs, all these cases look alike.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.catb.org&#x2F;esr&#x2F;writings&#x2F;taoup&#x2F;html&#x2F;plan9.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.catb.org&#x2F;esr&#x2F;writings&#x2F;taoup&#x2F;html&#x2F;plan9.html</a>
nanoanderson大约 9 年前
Sounds like a similar goal to <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;upthere.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;upthere.com</a>. If Dropbox can make this real, and with the reliability I&#x27;ve experienced on Dropbox over the past few years, I&#x27;m sold.
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fnordsensei大约 9 年前
This has been one of the pros of using BT Sync for a while now. Good to see that more tools are getting it.
JorgeGT大约 9 年前
This sounds awesome, but with all the talk about drag files, double click, etc., I wonder if this will work from the command line?
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altharaz大约 9 年前
This is a very good news for our tiny laptops with just 128GB hard drive.<p>Next step: migrate 100% of the OS in the Cloud?
FullyFunctional大约 9 年前
Sounds like a great idea, but not exactly revolutionary. In the 80&#x27;es I saw at least one implementation of this which migrated between tapes(!), hard drives, and memory. I always wanted this.<p>CODA [1] implemented parts of this as well.<p>Unfortunately, Dropbox has unencrypted access to all files and is too expensive, otherwise I&#x27;d be all over this. I&#x27;d rather allocate funds towards an open source implementation (I think something interesting would be done based on idea from CODA and NFSv4).<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.coda.cs.cmu.edu&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.coda.cs.cmu.edu&#x2F;</a>
fulafel大约 9 年前
The cloud &quot;wheel of reinvention&quot; revolves to bring AFS to the masses? Or is this just showing the files using a file manager plugin, not visible as a real filesystem?<p>edit: working at the FS level according to <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11571640" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11571640</a> - good job Dropbox! Anyone know if it&#x27;s also supported on Linux?
djhworld大约 9 年前
Does the dropbox API support s3 like operations where you can download byte ranges etc?
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gumby大约 9 年前
If they can make a remote Spotlight index of the cloud content for Mac users then it really would be seamless. Hope they do it.
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owenwil大约 9 年前
All I can say is: Finally. What took so long?
whatever_dude大约 9 年前
This is what Dropbox should have been. Glad they&#x27;re moving towards that.<p>(Now, if they can only implement a .dropboxignore feature...)
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XorNot大约 9 年前
I&#x27;m curious who all these people are who have more bandwidth and download volume then they do local storage space.
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wrcwill大约 9 年前
Can someone tell me why this is harder to do on desktop computers?<p>Because dropbox on phones (iOS atleast) has had exactly this forever, and it makes me wonder about the technical differences.<p>- I see all the files, and can open any of them at will.<p>- They don&#x27;t take up space on my iphone unless cached<p>- I can select files that i want to be available offline
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pwenzel大约 9 年前
Any hints as to when this feature will be rolled out?
akhilcacharya大约 9 年前
I was expecting skmething like this - Houston alluded to it in his recent Bloomberg interview.
nashashmi大约 9 年前
The first company to sort of mimic this was bitcasa. they just announced they are shutting their doors to consumer storage, because they were having greater success on the enterprise front. I wonder if this is related somehow.
Brajeshwar大约 9 年前
One should look at ExpanDrive. It does it for many Cloud Storage Services, including Dropbox. I like it and use it.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.expandrive.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.expandrive.com&#x2F;</a>
alediaferia大约 9 年前
I remember the time when I implemented this and even more with a friend, all on our own:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;nemboapp.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;nemboapp.com</a><p>We&#x27;ve never had chance to push this though...
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grandalf大约 9 年前
This is great news. If it&#x27;s not part of the normal non-business Dropbox I think I&#x27;m going to stop using Dropbox. This should be a common-sense feature for the base product in 2016.
mahyarm大约 9 年前
I will curious about the performance. SSHFS&#x2F;FUSE, expandrive &#x2F;odrive renderings of your onedrive&#x2F;cloud drive bucket and so on have been pretty bad in my experience.
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Tanax大约 9 年前
Have anyone speculated how this is achieved, from a technical standpoint? How would one go about to start creating something like this on their own that works against e.g. a NAS?
Spooky23大约 9 年前
This is pretty amazing... This could dramatically improve our ability to deliver VDI and other emerging user experiences.<p>How do you get a hold of a high level salesperson at Dropbox?
adamkochanowicz大约 9 年前
Feels like this is aaaalmost there. I just didn&#x27;t see an option to universally keep data storage below a certain amount. If I bring down so many local copies that I exceed the space on my computer, do I then have to peck through local files and individually revert them to being reference files until I get my space back?<p>Would be great if, once a certain threshold is reached, the oldest downloaded files would revert seamlessly.
xivzgrev大约 9 年前
Google drive has had this feature for a while. Your Google docs are essentially shortcuts to the cloud.<p>Im glad Dropbox is releasing this, I think it&#x27;s very useful, but man is it trumped up. They have officially crossed chasm into the mainstream, when there is more marketing hype than technological innovation in a new release.
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jorangreef大约 9 年前
How is this implemented on Windows vs OS X?
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joeblau大约 9 年前
Everything old is new again: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=vr3UiKkQ3GE" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=vr3UiKkQ3GE</a>. This does look very interesting though; I feel like this is the storage solution that I&#x27;ve been looking for.
saintfiends大约 9 年前
I like how they silently ignored Linux, even though it says it&#x27;s cross platform and available anywhere.
denibertovic大约 9 年前
And they conveniently don&#x27;t mention Linux support.... Sigh..<p>Also interesting thing to note is how everybody came down on keybase FS because the sync is on-demand. Most people citing dropbox and things like &quot;if it was a viable option dropbox would do it and not have full sync&quot;. Well now... :D
brisance大约 9 年前
BitTorrent Sync has had a similar feature for a while now. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;help.getsync.com&#x2F;hc&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;articles&#x2F;204754669-What-is-a-BTS-file-" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;help.getsync.com&#x2F;hc&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;articles&#x2F;204754669-What-is-...</a>
pj_mukh大约 9 年前
Currently, to collaborate on Office-type files, we collaborate on Google drive&#x2F;docs and then move it to Dropbox. This seems so silly. Is there a better, more integrated solution?<p>Wish Dropbox had better Office integration. Currently, it just keeps making copies of a file if two people edit it.
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nodesocket大约 9 年前
I was using BitCasa Drive but they just announced they are shutting it down. I need a cloud storage solution that stores files in the &quot;cloud&quot; but does not sync them locally. I have about 750GB of files and looking for a replacement for BitCasa Drive. Any recommendations?
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th0br0大约 9 年前
So this is similar to Cern VMFS presented a few days ago here with the FS being mutable? Neat!
microcolonel大约 9 年前
I&#x27;m not a Dropbox user, but I sorta assumed that this was already the case. I use sshfs when I&#x27;m fully connected, and I don&#x27;t really know how people could get by being limited by their endpoint&#x27;s storage up until now.
lucb1e大约 9 年前
A bit disappointing, it&#x27;s about time they finally got around to it and yet &quot;Check back here for more info as we continue to make progress.&quot; The remaining question is whether it&#x27;ll be for pro users only as well...
codezero大约 9 年前
This is a cool technological advancement but for me &quot;in context&quot; is not in a directory structure, it&#x27;s in a conversation, my team has mostly replaced Dropbox with Slack with the exception of long form documentation.
mark_l_watson大约 9 年前
That is a good idea. I use OneDrive because a terabyte is so inexpensive (and C. Rice is not on Microsoft&#x27;s board of directors), but Dropbox is technologically impressive and I should give them another evaluation.
doque大约 9 年前
I&#x27;m guessing this will only be available for Business subscriptions?
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Jgrubb大约 9 年前
My boss is already sold on this. Is there any time line for a release?
aroman大约 9 年前
To those of you who are dismissing this because AFS&#x2F;NFS has had this for years, the point is that this is running over the <i>Internet</i>, not your local network.
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ElijahLynn大约 9 年前
They totally just implemented Bitcasa for Dropbox. I hope Google Drive follows suit, I have been asking them to buy Bitcasa for years now, since Bitcasa launched.
dorfsmay大约 9 年前
Will the files disappear once you&#x27;re disconnected? Or will the ones you were working with still accessible and sunc&#x27;ed like the other Dropbox files?
partiallypro大约 9 年前
I&#x27;m just a lonely OneDrive user, looking out in envy at DropBox. Just doesn&#x27;t make sense to have both, when I have Office 365 bundled.
dilly_li大约 9 年前
I think the video could be better polished... I have this thought that all the big IT companies hire professional video editors nowadays.
brodo大约 9 年前
Dropbox is pretty overpriced compared to OneCloud. If they don&#x27;t solve that I&#x27;m not going to switch back.
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siranachronist大约 9 年前
<i>sigh</i> once again Microsoft is ahead of the curve, but drops the ball and lets another company swoop in
joshschreuder大约 9 年前
So this is pretty cool, but my question is - does it solve a long term problem? It seems like storage is one thing that continues to expand in size very fast, and decrease in cost in kind.<p>We&#x27;ll soon have many TB SSDs for cheaper than traditional hard disk drives, so I&#x27;m not convinced this solves a real future consumer need. Maybe there are other uses beyond space saving that I&#x27;m missing.
JumpCrisscross大约 9 年前
Where on the Cisco-to-Tarsnap spectrum is Dropbox in terms of trustworthiness with sensitive data?
Zekio大约 9 年前
Isn&#x27;t this pretty much the same as the old OneDrive? for windows 7?
pritam2020大约 9 年前
Seems like a rip off of &#x27;Dunder Mifflin Infinity&#x27;.
rajeevk大约 9 年前
What will happen if I run these commands:<p>cd dropBoxDir<p>grep -nr someStr .
chris_wot大约 9 年前
Have they got a patent on this?
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zopf大约 9 年前
Only 4 years behind Bitcasa...
d_intra_venous大约 9 年前
Wow this is familiar lol.....<p>My hybrid cloud storage team here at Microsoft in Silicon Valley (which was a startup called StorSimple that Microsoft acquired) already built this feature for our hybrid cloud storage virtual appliance that released a few months ago and its already in production and being used by customers.....<p>We called it Just in Time Item Level Restore but it&#x27;s the exact same thing........and looks exactly the same in behavior as well.....and we have various optimization to make it efficient and deal with latency and stuff.....<p>(Btw we have nothing to do with one drive or one drive for business. That&#x27;a completely separate team. We only build enterprise storage devices)<p>Ugh this is why you want to be in the consumer space , not the enterprise space.<p>If a consumer product and enterprise product make the exact same thing&#x2F;product, most people remember&#x2F;see the consumer product.<p>The race conditions and clever data structures to represent the file blobs and file system structure in the cloud to do this efficiently is actually very cool......I&#x27;m not sure how they (Dropbox) implemented it but I wonder how similar it would be to how we did it.<p>Oh well this is my last week here in Microsoft and I&#x27;m moving to Apple in a different space so I guess I don&#x27;t really care about storage anymore lol.<p>At least at Apple the cloud services and applications will be the backend for consumer used front end applications.<p>People will think Dropbox was the first one to do this because it&#x27;s in consumer space so it&#x27;s more well known......<p>Well actually I can link all the public announcements and stuff that was dated long before this video on the feature.<p>We should have made a public video like this. We have videos but they were all for internal demos....<p>Click the Preview link (skip to item level recovery section but the PM explanation doesn&#x27;t do it justice so you won&#x27;t see it as the same from a technical feature point of view but it&#x27;s exactly the same and behaved the same zero storage on disk but the file system thinks it&#x27;s there)<p>To accomplish all our feature we actually have low level stuff as well but I can&#x27;t go into the details since I&#x27;m not allowed to so I&#x27;ll leave it at that.<p>But Dropbox is a great company and I&#x27;m glad this feature is now available to Consumers not just enterprise.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;azure.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;blog&#x2F;announcing-the-storsimple-virtual-array-preview&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;azure.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;blog&#x2F;announcing-the-storsi...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;azure.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;blog&#x2F;announcing-general-availability-of-the-storsimple-virtual-array&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;azure.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;blog&#x2F;announcing-general-av...</a>
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cloudg53大约 9 年前
looks like they ripped off www.odrive.com - even stole their logo!!
abjorn大约 9 年前
So it&#x27;s a networked file system, just implemented better? That was my takeaway from the post.
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elcct大约 9 年前
And the poor man&#x27;s solution:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;parkomat&#x2F;parkomat" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;parkomat&#x2F;parkomat</a>
imaginenore大约 9 年前
So it&#x27;s a mounted SSH drive with some local caching?<p>Like SSHFS?
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grifter2000大约 9 年前
I&#x27;m not sure Dropbox is the porn host they used to be but this is still pretty cool stuff
sashk大约 9 年前
Finally.<p>But for me it&#x27;s too late.
gkya大约 9 年前
Oh my marketing, isn&#x27;t this basically NFS?
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hiven大约 9 年前
Dropbox have a history of creating and then pulling the plug on ideas like this after a few years.