Cuuuute! :) Could be even more interesting if combined with a suitable kind of encryption; I don't know how much I should trust Google, they are way too big to not be more than attractive "focus point" for "carpet-watching" people. The author is aware of this issue. Question for the crowd: How difficult it would be to write a suitable crypto engine as a plug-in module for FUSE itself? Then we could have support for encrypted files on any filesystem accessible through FUSE. ----------- http://www.boingboing.net/2004/08/29/turn_gmail_storage_i.html What to do with all that extra, network-based storage that comes with your Gmail account? If you're using Linux, you can turn it into a mountable filesystem with GmailFS. 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.). Link (via Waxy) http://richard.jones.name/google-hacks/gmail-filesystem/gmail-filesystem.htm... posted by Cory Doctorow at 08:21:29 AM