Using Gmail as a mountable Linux filesystem

As I'm not a Linux guy, I have no idea what it does or how it works, but it sounds cool...

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.).

So, there you have it... GmailFS

Posted by peter on September 03, 2004 at 01:12 AM
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