Dropbox Is Dropping Support For All Linux File Systems Except Unencrypted Ext4
Found on Slashdot on Saturday, 11 August 2018
Dropbox have declared that the only Linux filesystem supported for storage of the Dropbox sync folder starting the 7th of November will be on a clean ext4 file system. This basically means Dropbox drops Linux support completely, as almost all Linux distributions have other file systems as their standard installation defaults nowadays -- not to mention encryption running on top of even an ext4 file system, which won't qualify as a clean ext4 file system for Dropbox (such as eCryptfs which is the default in, for example, Ubuntu for encrypted home folders).
Unencrypted files on remote storage? I don't think many will be happy about this, especially since most corporations have strict internal security guides that do not allow the unencryted storage of files on remote systems. So the decision will be rather simple: drop Dropbox.