Gmail As A Storage Device

In case you haven’t seen this on the other 2,427 (or so) blogs that have linked to it, here you go. This is so dang cool, and I wish I had Linux and could use it:

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.).

How long do you think until they shut this down like they have other projects? Link via kottke.

Comments

I emailed google support and asked them if there were any more efficient ways than rm-f in googlefs to empty my spam folder.

Google Gmail as a linux file system

GmailFS provides a mountable Linux filesystem which uses your Gmail account as its storage medium.

Amir says:

In respond to Jesse, if you have yahoo.com, made it very easy to dump the Spam. Click on and Click on empty, is done. I deleted over 350 bulk.
I have no comment on GmailFS, I have yahoo and AOL @ both are OK.

moj says:

i wnt know what are you doing

kishor says:

plz….. find my password of gmail id e-mail id is [email protected]
my friend this e-mail id password is hack
then i found this email id password when found then send this e-mail id [email protected]

vino says:

hi frenz i need the password of my sister who is involved in some sort of mischievous ways. kindly help me in finding her password

vina says:

hi frenz dun giv the password to my brather who thinks i is involved in some sort of mischievous ways. rudely do not help him in finding my password

Another Great Gmail Hack

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