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It's not about creating new filesystems, but using filesystem ui to browse any filesystem like hierarchy. For example using a potential implementation you as a
by mateuszf 10y ago
It's not about creating new filesystems, but using filesystem ui to browse any filesystem like hierarchy. For example using a potential implementation you as a user could be browsing S3, remote NFS, or gmail account where labels would be represented as folders and emails as text files.
- Arnavion 10y agoPowershell providers get you quite the way there, though of course only PS understands them so they're not useful for other applications.
- NTripleOne 10y ago> gmail account where labels would be represented as folders and emails as text files. Okay, this sounds incredible - is this an actual doable thing here?
- mverwijs 10y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GmailFS https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GmailFS.
- wyldfire 10y agoThis was a big deal when gmail was first announced and they said they would give away one gigabyte (!!) worth of email storage with every (free!) account. These days, dropbox, drive and many other similar services provide a much more straightforward mapping to a storage service.