GmailFS provides a mountable Linux filesystem which

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

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Jeeves says:

Yeah great, I can't even get a friggin account.

» by Jeeves on Aug 29, 2004 at 11:08 AM

asshater says:

suckz 2 B U

» by asshater on Aug 29, 2004 at 11:17 AM

Reyhan Dhuny says:

If you would like a gmail invite, i have a few that i posted at http://www.reyhan.co.uk/weblog/archives/04/08/gmail_invite_urls.html.

» by Reyhan Dhuny on Aug 29, 2004 at 11:52 AM

Jeeves Sucks says:

suckz 2 B U (again)

Used up all reyhan's invites.

» by Jeeves Sucks on Aug 29, 2004 at 12:16 PM

Reyhan says:

Thats not how it was supposed to work. Sigh.

» by Reyhan on Aug 29, 2004 at 12:38 PM

Bon says:

Take this!... http://gmail.google.com/gmail/a-626da27a07-cd8b53bedf-601ad6d0bf

» by Bon on Aug 29, 2004 at 12:45 PM

Eli says:

Thank you kind Bon!

» by Eli on Aug 29, 2004 at 12:51 PM

Ben Saunders says:

Nothing at all to do with gmail, but The Great Gatsby gets two thumbs up and a cheesy grin from me - it's one of my favourite books.

'Swims and relaxing naps in the sun'?! It's raining here in London.

» by Ben Saunders on Aug 29, 2004 at 01:32 PM

Jim says:

Google is going to lose tons of tech street cred in the coming months shutting down all of the unintended uses of Gmail.

» by Jim on Aug 29, 2004 at 03:16 PM

Brandon says:

Whoa whoa... gmail invites without me?

» by Brandon on Aug 29, 2004 at 04:54 PM

scott partee says:

now let's just combine accounts and we've got a distributed, infinite filesystem. If I could use my 2 gmail accounts plus my Yahoo premium, I'd have 4 GB of online storage. That beats .Mac by a long shot!

» by scott partee on Aug 29, 2004 at 10:09 PM

kirkio says:

i know i'm a little off topic, but when i look at the invites that i sent out from GMail, they have a link referring to tJason's idea of a Google Browser. i'd assume everyone would get these ads since the content of the invite mailings is pretty much the same. anyone else get this?

» by kirkio on Aug 30, 2004 at 03:15 PM

Hurgle McDurgle says:

Oh mighty lazy web, I would like an OS X version of this fine hack to use with my remaining five invites.

» by Hurgle McDurgle on Aug 30, 2004 at 04:38 PM

Steven Marshall says:

another one for the fstab

» by Steven Marshall on Aug 30, 2004 at 08:39 PM

a name says:

shhh... http://gmail.google.com/gmail/a-3da4c5d2b4-1c0b87eac1-a0c347f2a8

» by a name on Aug 31, 2004 at 04:05 AM

ben. says:

I've got two to give, if you're still desparate...

Drop a line to 1f2frfbf@gmail.com, it may take me a day or two to remember tho...

» by ben. on Aug 31, 2004 at 12:01 PM

Finite says:

Hurgle, gmailfs is not likely to support OS X anytime soon, but if you've got root on a linux box somewhere it would be simple enough to export your Gmail filesystem from there to your mac via samba or nfs or even webdav. I'd imagine gmailfs is probably dead slow already, so one extra layer of protocol would only make it slightly more miserable to use.

» by Finite on Aug 31, 2004 at 03:26 PM

Hurgle Gurgle says:

Webdav! Webdav! I spit on Webdav. Linux is a floozie who promises you everything and leaves you sobbing with scripts that never work quite right.

» by Hurgle Gurgle on Sep 01, 2004 at 12:38 AM

Lode says:

if anyone is still looking for invites, drop me a line lodevermeiren at gmail, I've got several left

» by Lode on Sep 02, 2004 at 08:30 AM

margaret says:

i have 4. MadamM at... well, you know.

» by margaret on Sep 03, 2004 at 11:18 PM

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