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

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Thomas Koster

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