[FEATURE] Allow for mounting filesystem folders

[GameTec-live]

Problem Statement

I have a SMB share where people already have stored a lot of files. Id like to use OxiCloud as a frontend and easier to use system for these files (as especially on mobile SMB is a pain).

OxiCloud has no way for me to expose a real folder from the filesystem to my users.

Proposed Solution

A type of "mount" where you can pass a folder through to specific users, it then shows up in their UI as a normal folder and they can interact with it like any other with any files, etc, just landing as normal files in that folder.

Alternative Solutions

Moving everything to Oxicloud? This not only would be slow and duplicate A LOT of data (atleast while uploading), OxiCloud also doesnt have SMB support and stores everything in a proprietary blob format.

Use nextcloud? While more popular and could work, nextcloud is a slow PHP app and heavy with a lot more than file management. Nextcloud does support "local external storage" tho which basically achieves this goal.

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User Impact

Its a way to soften the migration from existing solutions and to allow for mixed deployments that would otherwise be impractical.

[EdouardVanbelle]

Hello what about having https://github.com/AtalayaLabs/OxiCloud-desktop in headless mode (daemon) to synchronize your Samba with Oxicloud server ?

[GameTec-live]

This sadly wouldnt solve the data duplication problem, which would be an issue, especially with larger amounts of data. I can also already see that causing a bunch of desync and permission issues.

So doesnt seem like the best solution even if technically possible?

[EdouardVanbelle]

The issue is that OxiCloud has it's own storage system with deduplication.
Another solution could be to have OxiCloud as source of truth and your clients connect via webdav
Eventually you can mount bind to rexeport in SMB, but you may have poor performances (fusefs ?)

Other question: is Oxicloud considered as production ready to become source of truth of your data ?

[GameTec-live]

I am aware that oxicloud has its own storage system, thats the entire issue why im this issue exists, but I feel like there may be various usecases where one would want to pass through a folder. So maybe making the storage system more flexible to allow for these folder mounts and whatever else may be needed in the future (see nextcloud, they basically support everything) is worth it.