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Re: Dropbox
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Alec Habig <[log in to unmask]>
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Alec Habig <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 6 May 2019 12:07:41 -0500
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Dropbox dropped support for earlier versions of glibc, meaning that the

world's most popular enterprise distribution (the one we're working

with) is not supported anymore.  At least until v8 comes out.



Also note that they only support ext4 for a filesystem.  Which means

that more up to date end-user systems such as Fedora or Ubuntu, which

might have the newer glibc, might be thus unusable if they're also using

one of the newer filesystems.



Why they did it is somewhat unclear.  Despite much complaining and bug

filing, they pushed through this change anyway last fall.



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			       Alec Habig

		     University of Minnesota Duluth

		     Dept. of Physics and Astronomy

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