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On Windows, Nextcloud seems to tap into some Windows function to provide files on demand. Is there any Linux cloud file service that can do it?
Nextcloud implements webdav, which you can use rclone to mount as a remote.
Also many distros have an online account option which does the same thing
In my experience it's not quite the same. Using webdav through the distro account seems that it's fully online. And folder access or file access contacts the server.
The virtual file experience is more of a hybrid. All the folders actually exist on disk, as well as shells for every file. If you try to open a virtual file, in the background Windows will seamlessly download it for you. At that point the file is actually on your disk. This way regularly accessed files on on your hard drive and seldom accessed ones are not, saving local hard drive space while providing an experience almost like if all the files were actually on your drive.
You could probably do this with FUSE. Guess nobody cared to make that yet.
It exists and I've tried it - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davfs2
Thing is, when an app thinks a directory is on a local disk, it does things which do not scale well over a network. e.g. reading every file in the directory to make thumbnails.
Seafile has fuse for accessing it as a folder.