Google hack: Use Gmail as a Linux filesystem

Definitely some very cool stuff here. Today, you will have an opportunity to learn about a book that will show you how to hack Gmail into a file system for use on your *Nix box.

September 15, 2006 (Computerworld) — This article is excerpted from Google Hacks, 3rd Edition, by Rael Dornfest, Paul Bausch and Tara Calishain, published August 2006 by O’Reilly Media Inc. Copyright 2006, 2005 and 2003, all rights reserved. Reprinted with permission.
GmailFS is a Python application that uses the FUSE userland filesystem infrastructure to help provide a filesystem and the libgmail library to communicate with Gmail.
GmailFS supports most file operations, such as read, write, open, close, stat, symlink, link, unlink, truncate and rename. This means you can use the lion’s share of your favorite Unix command-line tools (cp, ls, mv, rm, ln, grep, et al.) to operate on files stored on Google’s Gmail servers…. Source: computerworld.com