Re^3: Perl implementation of Google Filesystem

Have you actually read the site you've linked to ? That thing also uses FUSE, and it doesn't work on Win32, for exactly the reasons you cite . It can't work under Windows because FUSE is "just a filesystem like NTFS and ext3", except that it asks a userland process to supply/store the data.

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Re^4: Perl implementation of Google Filesystem by gri6507 (Deacon) on May 16, 2006 at 13:56 UTC
I have read the cite several times. I also have searched for variations on the "google drive gmail filesystem" keywords and have found a number of other links such as this one which is clearly for windows and, by the sounds of it, is the same implementation (albeit, without FUSE).	[reply]
Re^5: Perl implementation of Google Filesystem by Corion (Patriarch) on May 16, 2006 at 14:01 UTC
It is quite different. An explorer namespace extension is different from FUSE. It might use similar parts of the code, especially the parts talking to Google. The mechanisms of talking to the operating system are completely different. All of this is no matter of Perl though - both are talking to the operating system at a far lower level. If you want something like this in a cross-platform way, you will need to write or to find a module that exposes the same API to both FUSE and an Explorer Namespace Extension - which is not easy, and surely not conveniently done in Perl.	[reply]