IMAP back end

[Lukas Pirl]

On 11/01/2014 02:51 PM, Greg Troxel wrote:
> 
> It seems odd to me that your ticket was closed as spam.

I'd guess it was because it had too few text.

> Of course, being a unix/vfs/fuse type, I'd ask why one can't just mount
> the remote storage as a regular filesystem and then point tahoe at it,
> but that comment is as applicable to the other cloud backends as IMAP.
> 

Yes, I thought about just mounting everything too.

It is probably a trade-off like implementation versus integration, i.e.
implementation and maintenance efforts but comfort versus re-use but a
zoo of technologies.

One would have to - for example - ensure the mounts work correctly
before starting Tahoe etc.
>From my understanding, another aspect might be that cloud storages and
Tahoe are object-store-like, whereas a *nix file system is not. You'd
basically map an object store to a file system and a file system to an
object store again.

Best,

Lukas