I’ve been interested in setting up virtual drive on my Linux PCs. I have systems based on Kubuntu, Garuda Linux, KDE Neon & Pop!_OS.
For a long time now, I always thought it was impossible until I stumbled onto a reply that shows it can be enabled as an experimental feature. I did set it up before 2023, and never really thought about using it until very recently. However, I did set it up on my Mac Pro a while ago, and that’s how I found out about it.
So, just curious to know what’s working and what’s not working with the virtual drive on Linux.
However, I did set it up on my Mac Pro a while ago, and that’s how I found out about it.
Please note that the “VFS” on macOS (actually not a virtual file system but a file provider) is completely unrelated to the platform-specific implementations for Windows and Linux. They cannot be compared. Also, there was the “sort-of on-demand” experimental feature which worked with placeholder files to mimic the behavior of modern cloud storage integrations with traditional means (which again was something different).
I cannot tell much but a common Linux virtual files integration solution is a topic currently in discussion, also with other open source projects in connection with us. On Linux it is a bit more blurry though, because there are no canonical APIs or frameworks like on the other commercial platforms.