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Too many mountpoints in explorer on Linux #8355

Open Max-7 opened 2 weeks ago

Max-7 commented 2 weeks ago

Linux treats Parsec mountpoints as any other mountpoints and file managers will tend to display them as other devices like usb drives, which can be annoying for a huge number of mountpoints.

Find a solution to hide them or display them as one.

mmmarcos commented 2 weeks ago

@touilleMan suggests that security should also be taken into account when thinking about a solution: having many workspaces mounted by default could unnecessary expose sensible data that the user does not need at a given time.

In this sense, we should think about how can Parsec help the user to reduce the perimeter of exposed data as a best practice.

mmmarcos commented 2 weeks ago

We have discussed this many times, with some ideas that does not quite convince us.

Function to mount/unmount a workspace

V2 had a mount/unmount buttons, but this was hard to explain to users

One possibility will be to propose the same functions behind actions that have more sens to the user:

Explore the 1-mountpoint solution

Parsec creates a single mountpoint and each workspace is mapped to a directory inside the mount point (/P/wksp1, /P/wksp2, etc.).

This solution is rather tricky but has been implemented in V2 (for Windows): https://github.com/Scille/parsec-cloud/issues/4668. It worked fine but had some limitations on such as the "read-only flag" who can only be set at mountpoint-level. That said, this should not be a problem for Linux (it should be possible to set read-only per directory).

How about existing solutions?

Comparison with other solutions (such as Dropbox or Google Drive) are not very just: in Parsec, users do not have a single "data unit" that can be mounted in the OS. Instead, workspaces are "isolated data units" not shared by default between all users of the organization.