Ash HN: What does dropbox care what filesystem is it being hosted on?

3 points by proginthebox 7 years ago | 2 comments

Recently, I came across the requirements of dropbox where it can not work on certain filesystems. I am curious why. I am curious how does the underlying filesystem matters to dropbox. Shouldn't it just have need to access inodes and directory structure and be happy?

byoung2 7 years ago |

I believe Dropbox needs a filesystem that supports extended attributes to store metadata related to syncing.

db48x 7 years ago | |

They really just don't want to put in any extra engineering or QA effort