GmailFS
GmailFS is a virtual file system developed by Richard Jones. It allows users to connect their e-mail account with Gmail as the location to mount and use as a local hard disk. GmailFS was originally developed for Linux , but there are also variants for Windows such as the GMail Drive shell extension. GmailFS is not to be confused with the Google File System developed by Google . With "gDisk" there was a similar program for Mac OS X from January 2007, which is no longer compatible due to later system changes by Google.
Since the development of the library libgmail required by GmailFS has been discontinued, the author of GmailFS announced in 2009 that the further development will be discontinued. Google itself introduced a comparable service in 2012 with Google Drive , which also uses Gmail's storage quota, but works completely independently of this service and offers a wider range of functions.
functionality
GmailFS builds a file system using FUSE (which allows file systems to be controlled by the user, not the kernel ). Communication with Gmail takes place via a Python library called libgmail. GmailFS itself is also written in Python .
By using GmailFS, storage space is taken up by the 15 GB quota of the user's Gmail account. The memory can be accessed from any computer with an Internet connection. The speed of access to the file system depends on the speed of the user's Internet access and the Google server. GmailFS is also accessible for the Apple operating system via MacFUSE.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Project page with news: http://richard.jones.name/google-hacks/gmail-filesystem/gmail-filesystem.html ( Memento of the original from July 7, 2009) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. As of December 18, 2009
