Greg, On 15 June 2015 at 12:08, Greg Keogh <[email protected]> wrote: > I discovered by accident this morning that someone has already considered > the issue of "a file system in the cloud" and made this announcement a year > ago: > > http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazurestorage/archive/2014/05/12/introducing-microsoft-azure-file-service.aspx
On 15 June 2015 at 18:39, Greg Low (罗格雷格博士) <[email protected]> wrote: > Also for DB backups, there’s an Azure backup tool for SQL Server. It > installs a file system driver and redirects filesystem writes (ie: writing a > file like a backup) to a storage account and just leaves a stub in place. > When you read from the stub, it redirects the data from the storage account > to you. A file system driver sounds like the way to go. I stumbled upon a Linux userspace file system called cloudyfs[1] and I thought of this thread. Then I saw that the author was making a joke - cloudyfs gives weather reports in your filesystem instead. [1] https://github.com/bhickey/cloudyfs -- Thomas Koster
