GmailFS - make your Gmail a mountable filesystem

Alexander Turcic · 08-29-2004, 06:21 AM

I am not sure what Google will say to this, but I like it!

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. 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.).

Requires Python 2.3 installed.

cbarnett · 08-29-2004, 06:58 PM

The next step is for someone to make a utility to make it a windows drive

Craig.

Alexander Turcic · 08-30-2004, 03:07 AM

I've tested GmailFS yesterday, and it works fine. Next step was to mount it in a Samba network, so Windows workstations could access it as well

But yes, making a little Windows tool that would map Gmail accounts as drives would be the next step. Then Google will most certainly permanently include image verification or something alike to disable scraping processes.

08-29-2004, 06:21 AM	#1
Alexander Turcic Fully Converged Posts: 18,163 Karma: 14021202 Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Switzerland Device: Too many to count here.	GmailFS - make your Gmail a mountable filesystem I am not sure what Google will say to this, but I like it! 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. 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.). Requires Python 2.3 installed.

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08-29-2004, 06:58 PM	#2
cbarnett MR prodigal son Posts: 1,085 Karma: 1083739 Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Australia Device: Kobo Aura H2O	The next step is for someone to make a utility to make it a windows drive Craig.

08-30-2004, 03:07 AM	#3
Alexander Turcic Fully Converged Posts: 18,163 Karma: 14021202 Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Switzerland Device: Too many to count here.	I've tested GmailFS yesterday, and it works fine. Next step was to mount it in a Samba network, so Windows workstations could access it as well But yes, making a little Windows tool that would map Gmail accounts as drives would be the next step. Then Google will most certainly permanently include image verification or something alike to disable scraping processes.

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