[sword-devel] unified GDrive filesystem repo

[David Haslam]

Hi Karl,

Interesting idea.

One important question…

How would you ensure that any module that gets deleted from one of the existing repositories will also be speedily removed from the gdrive unified module source mirror?

cf. As what happened when Crossway withdrew its previous permission for CrossWire to host the ESV as a Sword module

Regards

David

On Sat, May 24, 2025 at 16:29, Karl Kleinpaste <[karl at kleinpaste.org](mailto:On Sat, May 24, 2025 at 16:29, Karl Kleinpaste <<a href=)> wrote:

> This has been on my mind for a couple years: Creation of a unified module repo in one of the major cloud storage systems. Some months ago, I got around to fiddling with things enough to make it a possibility. I'm wondering how useful others might find this, and whether users could put it to use if it was offered publicly.
>
> Google Drive has been the most obvious candidate for storage because it has, as far as I know, the most generous space for free usage. Along with filesystem tools like rclone and sshfs, it's possible to glue many random things around the net into a filesystem as a quasi-local reference.
>
> If you're not aware of rclone, see https://rclone.org/ where you'll learn it's "rsync for cloud storage." It has support for Windows, Linux, and MacOS. Most importantly to me, rclone has a FUSE-driven mount capability, by which I can simply glue remote filesystems to my own. So I use sshfs to mount ftp.xiphos.org and ftp.crosswire.org (because I have personal creds there), and rclone with an anon configuration to mount eBible and IBT. Then I use rsync from each to push it all into my Google Drive.
>
> I have cloned 11 repos into my personal GDrive, using a script that can update them regularly (though it's manual so far, not yet cron-driven):
>
> crosswire/pub/sword/atticraw
> crosswire/pub/sword/betaraw
> crosswire/pub/sword/dbgraw
> crosswire/pub/sword/experimentalraw
> crosswire/pub/sword/lockmanraw
> crosswire/pub/sword/raw
> crosswire/pub/sword/wyclifferaw
> crosswire/pub/bible-org/sword
> xiphos/pub/xiphos
> ebible
> ibt
>
> These occupy ~5Gbytes. Then the user could surf this shared link for my GDrive to connect at his end: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1nDVZRDfs8EtdXV_aKpbea1YbSEOSyJW5 ...and then an rclone configuration at his end will let him get at these things directly using "local" filesystem references with InstallMgr.conf's "DIRSource=" directive.
>
> I'm a networks guy, so this is in part a technical toy to me. But it requires someone adept enough to use GDrive in the 1st place, and to use rclone to get at their GDrive.
>
> It's likely that I've overthought this to a degree. Nonetheless what do others think about the availability of all repos in a one-stop-shopping motif under a common subtree?
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