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Mountable Linux Filesystem Uses Gmail as Storage

Nov 26, 2007  By Carlie Fairchild

Gmail Filesystem (GmailFS) provides a mountable Linux filesystem which uses your Gmail account as its storage medium (for us Gmail users that's 2.9 gigs for free). With it you can use your favorite Unix commands such as ls, mv, cp, grep, rm, and so forth to communicate with Gmail.

Richard Jones wrote the Gmail Filesystem in Python. Check GmailFS out.

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Carlie Fairchild is the publisher of Linux Journal.

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Look at us, ahead of the curve

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Submitted by Shawn Powers on Tue, 11/27/2007 - 10:22.

I just read that Google is (possibly) planning to do this officially. Look at us penguins forging the path...

Read about it here.

Shawn Powers is an Associate Editor for Linux Journal. You might find him chatting on the IRC channel, or Twitter

Wanna Love It

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Submitted by Shawn Powers on Tue, 11/27/2007 - 09:47.

I tried to get GmailFS working a few months back, and never quite got it working. The concept was so cool, that maybe it's time I go for it again. It would sure beat paying for my .Mac account at Apple!

Shawn Powers is an Associate Editor for Linux Journal. You might find him chatting on the IRC channel, or Twitter

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