Allow connection to google drive for repl storage

Support Feature Requests
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Describe your feature request
Allow your Google Drive to be connected to repls for more storage
What problem(s) would this feature solve?
It would allow for more storage in repls without costing Replit more money
Explain what you were trying to do when you came across the problem leading to this feature request
Replit already has the google login api integrated, so why not also add the ability to connect and use google drive storage?

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A cool idea and I don’t see a negative side to this.

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3

Starts working on another extension

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:0 rly pls make this :pray:

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It’d be better if Replit made FUSE work for repls, because then people could make anything (not just Google Drive) be used for storing data.

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A member on the replit discord pointed out that it would make replit less money (they are testing MegaRepls™ which have 10 GB of storage) smh

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So there is this service called Drive to Web that does something like that. My friend has used it, but there are several downsides and I honestly have no idea if the service is safe. This would be a much better alternative.

Would this make the Repl always on since Google Drive’s servers don’t sleep like Repls do?

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No, as only the storage would be hosted on google drive, not the virtual machine

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I feel like there is a reason replit didn’t do this. Not gonna vote

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They don’t do it because that would make their offers for higher amounts of storage less appealing.

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11

Well I guess that’s even more reason for me to make something then XD

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12

Just make something that abuses ptrace to make all accesses to a directory get handled by a FUSE implementation

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13

The only part of that I understand is abuse.

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14

Sounds like a new project idea for us :wink:

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15

Sounds like a cool idea, count me in :laughing:

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I’ve got a few ideas on how to make it work, but wouldn’t it use up ram if it downloaded from drive?

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So what lmao. There’s enough of it, and syncs would only happen periodically.

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No, not at all. If you download more than a few gigs, repl crashes + if you want to keep it after sync it will stay in ram.

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I hope it’s done and released soon

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It still has some issues (like it randomly decreasing disk quotas for no reason on repls), but they’re getting there!

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