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Re:Dokany – User mode file system library for windows with F... by mateuszf on Thursday September 22, 2016 @02:04AM (#12554763)
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.
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Re:Dokany – User mode file system library for windows with F... by Arnavion on Thursday September 22, 2016 @03:52AM (#12555241)
Powershell providers get you quite the way there, though of course only PS understands them so they're not useful for other applications.
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Re:Dokany – User mode file system library for windows with F... by NTripleOne on Thursday September 22, 2016 @05:40AM (#12555666)
> 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?

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Re:Dokany – User mode file system library for windows with F... by mverwijs on Thursday September 22, 2016 @07:24AM (#12556017)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GmailFS.
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Re:Dokany – User mode file system library for windows with F... by wyldfire on Thursday September 22, 2016 @08:54AM (#12556452)
This 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.

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