GmailFS
GmailFS is a virtual filesystem developed by Richard Jones which
allows users to mount and use their Gmail email
account's storage as a local disk drive. GmailFS is written for Linux,
but Windows ports do exist. Also it's noteworthy that this filesystem
should not be misunderstood as it were GoogleFS, the filesystem of the
same source but in the scope of heavyweight servers hard storage,
adjusted for performance and large-file handling features.
It works by building a filesystem with the FUSE utility (which
allows filesystems to be managed by the user—not just the kernel), and
manages communication with Gmail through a
special purpose Python library called libgmail. The actual
GmailFS is implemented in Python.
Using GmailFS will provide the user with over two gigabytes of online
storage. The speed of this filesystem is limited by the speed of the
user's Internet connection, and the upload/download speed of the
Gmail server.
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