GmailFS - The Google File System 429
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.'"
Competing Search Service ! (Score:5, Funny)
GoogleOS (Score:4, Funny)
Great! (Score:5, Funny)
Comment removed (Score:2, Funny)
Re:It won't eventuate (Score:1, Funny)
But if we get to use it all through the wintery that'll still be useful.
I would try this . . . (Score:4, Funny)
Booting (Score:5, Funny)
Re:This seems horribly abusive of Google. (Score:2, Funny)
now, they can have more data to analyze.
The only thing left is finding an unintrusive way to show google adds for the file system.
hi Bender ! (Score:5, Funny)
That's a nice way to describe robot pr0n, Bender. Way to go!
Re:Useless. Use GMX.net instead (Score:3, Funny)
Re:why? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Nice (Score:5, Funny)
Affected people go crying to Google wanting un-backed-up data back, but Google declares that was "your problem".
Affected people start running RAID-1 on a bunch of Gmail accountshmm... RAID? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:why? (Score:1, Funny)
I thought that was done for women....
Re:Nice (Score:4, Funny)
Re:...Which brings up another point (Score:4, Funny)
Re:hmm... RAID? (Score:3, Funny)
RAFEA-0
Redundant
Array of
Free
Email
Accounts
Re:Nice (Score:3, Funny)
Yes, as soon as someone creates the GMail block device and not the GMail filesystem.
Comming Soon... (Score:2, Funny)
Uses a redundant array of wikies found on the internet using internet searches for 'wiki'.
The available storage is limited only by the number of wikis found on the internet.
Thee filing system gards against deletion by redundantly storing data accross multiple wiki sites.
i just invented SLASHDOT_FS (Score:5, Funny)
comments are encrypted and written using dictionary words to avoid the lameness filter.
I implemented the prototype of this system many years ago using an encoding system called First-Post. I simply use different permuations of the words first-post (FP!, Frist psot!, etc...) along with various dummy account names to encode 1 Kilobyte of information. I run the whole thing off ny Newton.
Re:why? (Score:1, Funny)
You're right, it's exactly that, Linux was missing a really slow FS, thus this. Windows already has two of them, so no problems there
Re:On the spoke. . . (Score:3, Funny)
I'll bet by the time Google goes "public", there will be so many Gmail invites lying around, we'll think of them like AOL CD's.
Re:This seems horribly abusive of Google. (Score:5, Funny)
Seems using GMail is against their terms of service...
Re:i just invented SLASHDOT_FS (Score:4, Funny)
Use journal entries for Slashdot_FS, not comments. Journal entries can be read and written to at will and don't suffer from the lameness filter. You get unlimited read/write filesystem!