So what do you do with a gig of storage? If you're Richard Jones, you figure out how to use Google's new e-mail system to store files:
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.).
Via Steven Hatch.
Back to CompendiumI think anyone who uses that for anything important/business-critical is a moron.
Take a look at the GMail TOS. I'm sure that, just like every other free service provider, there are plenty of clauses releasing Google from all liability in the event your data disappears; and allowing them to terminate any given account for any reason at any time with no notice.
Store the pix of the company holiday party, sure. Make it an online repository for all your cute sound files, no problem. Store anything even vaguely inmportant or business-critical, and you're a feel.
Posted by: Mark Bender on August 31, 2004 01:37 PMYou're a moron.
Posted by: Mark Bender's Friend on September 3, 2004 03:50 AMSo you mean I can't put any important info there? Things like business contacts, order info, tracking info, faxes, bank account numbers, pins, social security numbers, credit card numbers, address, ...
Posted by: Moron on September 9, 2004 06:31 PMPost a comment
