Ooh that takes me back to my IFS days
regards, Preet, in Auckland NZ On 17 June 2015 at 12:26, Thomas Koster <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
