Re: GmailFS

From: jpd (read_the_sig_at_do.not.spam.it.invalid)
Date: 12/30/04 

Date: 30 Dec 2004 19:58:55 GMT

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On 2004-12-30, Torfinn Ingolfsen <tingo@start.no> wrote:
> GMailFS uses FUSE (http://fuse.sourceforge.net/). On the FUSE web page
> it says that you don't need to recompile the kernel. However, it also
> says that FUSE is a kernel module, so I guess it won't work.

No kernel recompile needed for gmailfs, since you only have to do that
for fuse. Lookit, no kernel recompile!

Come to think of it, maybe not even for fuse if you have a kernel source
tree around, so all you need to do is compile the module and load it.

> Both GMailFS and libgmail are written in Python, so any Python buffs
> out there could try to adapt it for FreeBSD.

Or port it to use a nfs interface (like cfs)?

Then again, I'm not entirely happy running filesystem stuff off of
scripting languages. But what crusty conservative I am, considering that
you can do entire SCSI layers in perl, too. 

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  j p d (at) d s b (dot) t u d e l f t (dot) n l .

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