Unlimited virtual storage via GMail? (Linux)

[BillR]

I hesitate to post this due to the abuse potential, but it has to have
occurred to many others already. Gmail provides 1 gb storage and
supports 10 mb attachments. Now that you have all that extra on-line
storage, what are you going to do with it? Linux users, add a
mountable filesystem via GmailFS.

Any Python experts interested in making something similar available to
Win users?

http://richard.jones.name/google-hacks/gmail-filesystem/gmail-filesystem.html

"GmailFS provides a mountable Linux filesystem which uses your Gmail
account as its storage medium. GmailFS is a Python application and
uses the FUSE userland filesystem infrastructure to help provide the
filesystem, and libgmail to communicate with Gmail.

"GmailFS supports most file operations such as read, write, open,
close, stat, symlink, link, unlink, truncate and rename. This means
that you can use all your favourite unix command line tools to operate
on files stored on Gmail (e.g. cp, ls, mv, rm, ln, grep etc. etc.)."

BillR

P.S. My thanks go to the various ACF readers who generously shared
their Gmail invites with me and others. Thanks as well to those who
stayed in one ACF thread.

 

[Gabriele Neukam]

On that special day, BillR, ([email protected]) said...

Any Python experts interested in making something similar available to
Win users?

http://richard.jones.name/google-hacks/gmail-filesystem/gmail-filesystem.html

Python for Windows is already there; and the Python scripts can be used
within both OSes, as they are.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/python/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/


Gabriele Neukam

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