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GmailFS - The Google File System

Posted by timothy on from the never-meant-to-be dept.

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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  1. Interesting Hack by protektor · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Interesting hack but I suspect it is soon to become just one thing in a long list of things that Google bans or doesn't allow.

  2. Re:i just invented SLASHDOT_FS by goombah99 · · Score: 1, Redundant
    I stored a copy of firefox on my SLASHDOT_FS. then I launched this firefox application , went to slashdot, now am posting this comment using the firefox app I'm running of my SLASHDOT_FS.

    I have to admit the write-latency is bad so I have ot keep the cache on my local disk. (I get around the 120 second post rate liit by having 10,000 different slashdot accounts). But the read time is quite good.

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