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.'"

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Competing Search Service !

[Mr Europe]

Ond now we'll put up a competing internet search service using GMail disk space !

Great!

[Yeechang Lee]

Thanks to GmailFS, I can now look forward to seeing the following files when I log into my computer:

-rw-rw-r-- 1 ylee ylee 2384 Aug 28 04:25 BUY V1AGRA N0W.pdf
-rw------- 1 ylee ylee 3723 Aug 28 04:39 RE: Stupid weomn cheating.xls
-rw------- 1 ylee ylee 2342 Aug 28 05:05 URGENT RESPONSE NEEDED.doc

Thanks, GmailFS!

hi Bender !

[Anonymous Coward]

"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!

i just invented SLASHDOT_FS

[goombah99]

Hi I'm working on a flie system called SLASHDOT_FS. it treats the slashdot message posting system as an unlimited write-once file storage system. Data is written to a comments and then changes are updated as diffs in the replys.

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.