From: Ayhan BARIS (abaris@oyaktur.com.tr)
Date: Thu 09 Sep 2004 - 10:13:36 EEST
GmailFS - Gmail Filesystem
GmailFS provides a mountable Linux filesystem which uses your Gmail account
as its storage medium. GmailFS is a Python application and uses the FUSE
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/avf> userland filesystem infrastructure to
help provide the filesystem, and libgmail <http://libgmail.sourceforge.net>
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.).
Please be gentle on the Python code. This is my first foray into Python and
I'm sure the code is far from elegant. I'm particularly concerned with my
attempts to manipulate mutable byte arrays in Python. I'm sure that there
must be a less clumsy way of doing it than the nasty list -> array -> string
path I'm currently using. Python has a reputation as an excellent language
choice for rapid prototyping. The first working version of GmailFS took
about 2 days of coding. There was an additional 1.5 days spent on
performance tuning and bugfixing. Given that this includes language learning
curve, Python's reputation seems well deserved. A special mention should go
to libgmail <http://libgmail.sourceforge.net> and FUSE
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/avf> , both greatly contributed to the
short development time.
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