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GmailFS - The Google File System
Scott Granneman writes "Looking to use that new Gmail account for something really innovative? How about combining it with a brand new filesystem for Linux? Then GmailFS might be the answer: 'GmailFS provides a mountable Linux filesystem which uses your Gmail account as its storage medium. ... GmailFS supports most file operations such as read, write, open, close, stat, symlink, link, unlink, truncate and rename.'"
Ond now we'll put up a competing internet search service using GMail disk space !
They're obviously setting themselves up to enter the OS/desktop market.
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and in summery Google will get very angry and pull the plug in a mean way.
But if we get to use it all through the wintery that'll still be useful.
. . . but I have a feelng that fsck would take a long time were Gmail to die during a write :).
CEE5210S The signal SIGHUP was received.
Can I boot my computer from my GMail account now?
Analogies don't equal equalities, they are merely somewhat analogous.
now, they can have more data to analyze.
The only thing left is finding an unintrusive way to show google adds for the file system.
"it were legitimate hi-res surface-scans of metal structures, entirely educational."
That's a nice way to describe robot pr0n, Bender. Way to go!
Awesome! Now I am glad I took German in HS too.
Why not fork?
Theres lots of things wrong with the filesystems availible for Windows and Linux, I'm sure. But even if that was a reason for this, this doesn't fix it. (Since it's just a Unix like FS that happens to use GMail as the storage device as opposed to a physical drive). I'm sure the coder didn't say to himself, "You know what's wrong with file-systems today? They aren't implemented as a slow screen-scrapping interface to webmail!". It was probably more along the lines of "Crap, I only have enough HDD space left for some Python scripts and FUSE...hmm GMail gives me a gig..."
Why not fork?
Affected people go crying to Google wanting un-backed-up data back, but Google declares that was "your problem".
Affected people start running RAID-1 on a bunch of Gmail accountsI believe posters are recognized by their sig. So I made one.
If I had 2 accts can I have RAID-0 for faster access? :)
Why do men climb mountains, why do they explore new lands, why do they explore space or the depths of the oceans. Mankind does it because it's there (or can be done).
I thought that was done for women....
I know of no RAID system that can recover from the sudden loss of all disks involved in the same moment without data loss.
They probably expect people to fill it up slowly with E-MAIL rather than uploading their pr0n collections etc.
Affected people start running RAID-1 on a bunch of Gmail accounts :-)
:)
Yes, as soon as someone creates the GMail block device and not the GMail filesystem.
WikiFS the new filing system for linux.
Uses a redundant array of wikies found on the internet using internet searches for 'wiki'.
The available storage is limited only by the number of wikis found on the internet.
Thee filing system gards against deletion by redundantly storing data accross multiple wiki sites.
comments are encrypted and written using dictionary words to avoid the lameness filter.
I implemented the prototype of this system many years ago using an encoding system called First-Post. I simply use different permuations of the words first-post (FP!, Frist psot!, etc...) along with various dummy account names to encode 1 Kilobyte of information. I run the whole thing off ny Newton.
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
I'm curious, because if somebody is doing this, there's something wrong with the Windows and/or Linux filesystems. What's the matter?
:)
You're right, it's exactly that, Linux was missing a really slow FS, thus this. Windows already has two of them, so no problems there
I totally agree with you on this.
I'll bet by the time Google goes "public", there will be so many Gmail invites lying around, we'll think of them like AOL CD's.
" You also agree that you will not use any... ...manual process to monitor or copy any content from the Service. "
Seems using GMail is against their terms of service...