@metabubble schrieb:
TBF someone who makes use of snapshots and deduplication won't have a problem to either
- create a new btrfs subvolume that is excluded from snapshots
- shrink the partition and create a new one
- shrink the lv and create a new one (should have space in your vg anyways, because otherwise how would you be flexible with lvm?)
I think this problem is way overblown and people just want to be outraged because it is fun.
Sorry - but this won't solve any problem at all.
As I mentioned before, I am using deduplication, compression and snapshotting on the files in my Dropbox folder. I want to have these backed up using my btrbk snapshotting, and I need to save the space by compression and deduplication, otherwise I'd need a larger SSD.
So no, sorry, that's not a solution for me.
pCloud has a full account rollback feature, which spares me from doing snaphots, and in any case, setting up a local Sync folder as others have outlined before makes it behave like Dropbox, so I can deduplicate and snapshot important data to my liking. The additional VFS via FUSE is just an extra feature which Dropbox never had, essentially, not many real technical features have been added to Dropbox in the past years, to my feeiling. What pCloud offers is like "selective sync on demand" via the VFS, and of course you can still sync full folders. In my opinion, this is a pretty cool addition, and it allows for new usecases.
I'm also in contact with pCloud support since it seems their deduplication per account is not (yet) up to par with what Dropbox is doing internally. Even though I'm still a free user, they took my recommendation seriously, asked for technical details, and forwarded it to their experts. That's very different from Dropbox's reaction in this very forum, which is just PR, without any technical reasoning.
In case somebody wants to do me a favour, here's my invite link for pCloud:
<<referral links are not permitted>>
I'll cover my cloud needs with them, and anything which should be private will be shuffled into Syncthing, which is astonishinly easy to set up on a Raspberry Pi and runs pretty stable.
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