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MakeDrive: Filesystem for the web

79 points by khc 12y ago

jbardnz 12y ago
This looks really cool. I love the demo application integrating with Brackets. I could imagine me setting this up and running it on my Chromebook instead of Google Drive.
callesgg 12y ago
Nice work, looks great:) On thing i noted as beeing polisheble was how the conflicting was done and renames of files. When a file was renamed the other browsers acted as if the file had been deleted then recreated.
epayne 12y ago
This is a very exciting project! Well done! This and the "Remote Storage" movement [1] seem to be making movements towards a web with data in the hands of the users. This is important if smaller SaaS companies want to sell into the big enterprise that have strict policies about data storage remaining on the internal network. [1] http://remotestorage.io/ http://remotestorage.io/
frequent 12y ago
Here is another (work-in-progress) project with similar approach: https://github.com/nexedi/jio https://github.com/nexedi/jio Same idea, JavaScript only, multiple storages, simple API, with basic query-syntax. Disclaimer: I contributed some parts to the project.
radiospiel 12y ago
I can see the use case, but I can't yet figure out how MakeDrive is different from a syncing solution (say, OwnCloud, SparkleShare, SeaCloud etc.) combined with a node.js service which allows to access local files. What do I miss?
gbog 12y ago
Great, I appreciate getting back control on my files, and it seems this could help. For instance a web-app could have some configuration and save it in a text file instead of in some cookie or session data. Then I could backup this config, sync it with other accounts, etc. For any serious web-based editing, I certainly would need such a tool. By the way, recently I started to use BTsync to get back control (I would prefer an open-source implementation, but hey) and it feel so much better. Sample workflow: take picture with DSLR, import them on desktop at work, near-instantly get them synched to my phone, check and remove bad shots on my phone, also rotate and adjust them, have the edited and filtered pics ready on my laptop back at home, have all the thing on a linode where I have some scripts doing renaming and analysing. And, guess what, all of this in China, where dropbox and google drive are often unreachable. The most important in this workflow, which I also use for music, is that when I remove a picture or a track, I want it removed from all the devices, and never come back before my face. It is suprisingly difficult... (In both senses: it is artistically difficult and necessary to decide to delete for good a file, and it seems technically impossible with services like Google photo, Dropbox's camera upload, etc.)
ramon 12y ago
Great work, I had a compatibility questions found it in the github, you should make a link to the github site evident. https://github.com/mozilla/makedrive https://github.com/mozilla/makedrive Best Regards,
ramon 12y ago
How do I get the makedrive working with filer-s3? From the comments and Wiki post seems it's native already, maybe just configuration issue. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Webmaker/MakeDrive https://wiki.mozilla.org/Webmaker/MakeDrive

79 points by khc 12y ago

This looks really cool. I love the demo application integrating with Brackets. I could imagine me setting this up and running it on my Chromebook instead of Google Drive.

callesgg 12y ago

Nice work, looks great:) On thing i noted as beeing polisheble was how the conflicting was done and renames of files. When a file was renamed the other browsers acted as if the file had been deleted then recreated.

epayne 12y ago

This is a very exciting project! Well done! This and the "Remote Storage" movement [1] seem to be making movements towards a web with data in the hands of the users. This is important if smaller SaaS companies want to sell into the big enterprise that have strict policies about data storage remaining on the internal network. [1] http://remotestorage.io/ http://remotestorage.io/

frequent 12y ago

Here is another (work-in-progress) project with similar approach: https://github.com/nexedi/jio https://github.com/nexedi/jio Same idea, JavaScript only, multiple storages, simple API, with basic query-syntax. Disclaimer: I contributed some parts to the project.

radiospiel 12y ago

I can see the use case, but I can't yet figure out how MakeDrive is different from a syncing solution (say, OwnCloud, SparkleShare, SeaCloud etc.) combined with a node.js service which allows to access local files. What do I miss?

gbog 12y ago

Great, I appreciate getting back control on my files, and it seems this could help. For instance a web-app could have some configuration and save it in a text file instead of in some cookie or session data. Then I could backup this config, sync it with other accounts, etc. For any serious web-based editing, I certainly would need such a tool. By the way, recently I started to use BTsync to get back control (I would prefer an open-source implementation, but hey) and it feel so much better. Sample workflow: take picture with DSLR, import them on desktop at work, near-instantly get them synched to my phone, check and remove bad shots on my phone, also rotate and adjust them, have the edited and filtered pics ready on my laptop back at home, have all the thing on a linode where I have some scripts doing renaming and analysing. And, guess what, all of this in China, where dropbox and google drive are often unreachable. The most important in this workflow, which I also use for music, is that when I remove a picture or a track, I want it removed from all the devices, and never come back before my face. It is suprisingly difficult... (In both senses: it is artistically difficult and necessary to decide to delete for good a file, and it seems technically impossible with services like Google photo, Dropbox's camera upload, etc.)

ramon 12y ago

Great work, I had a compatibility questions found it in the github, you should make a link to the github site evident. https://github.com/mozilla/makedrive https://github.com/mozilla/makedrive Best Regards,

ramon 12y ago

How do I get the makedrive working with filer-s3? From the comments and Wiki post seems it's native already, maybe just configuration issue. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Webmaker/MakeDrive https://wiki.mozilla.org/Webmaker/MakeDrive