Linux installed on GMail


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first you can install linux on your computer, then your PDA, then Cell Phone, iPod.. .why not on the 2GB Gmail drive?

http://richard.jones.name/google-hacks/gma...filesystem.html

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.).

Please be gentle on the 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. 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. This language has a reputation as an excellent 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, the reputation seems well deserved. A special mention should go to libgmail and FUSE, both greatly contributed to the short development time.

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I don't think you can install Linux on Gmail and run it from there. GmailFS was available for Windows as a tool to store files on Gmail from Windows Explorer, and now this is doing the same for Linux systems as well I presume.

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This is very old. GMailFS as I recall was originally a Linux thing, then it was ported to windows. You don't run linux on gmail, you store and access files via Gmail.

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This is very old. GMailFS as I recall was originally a Linux thing, then it was ported to windows. You don't run linux on gmail, you store and access files via Gmail.

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Sorry.. i must have misinterperated it when he said you could run programs from it

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