solution for use at home. My requirements are simple, it must be
cheap and locally encrypted (in other words, I keep the encryption
keys, the storage provider do not have access to my private files).
-One idea me and my friends have had many years ago, before the cloud
-storage providers showed up, have been to use Google mail as storage,
+One idea me and my friends had many years ago, before the cloud
+storage providers showed up, was to use Google mail as storage,
writing a Linux block device storing blocks as emails in the mail
service provided by Google, and thus get heaps of free space. On top
of this one can add encryption, RAID and volume management to have
install s3ql</tt>. Next, pick a storage provider. I ended up picking
Greenqloud, after reading their nice recipe on
<a href="https://greenqloud.zendesk.com/entries/44611757-How-To-Use-S3QL-to-mount-a-StorageQloud-bucket-on-Debian-Wheezy">how
-to use s3ql with their Amazon S3 service</a>, because I trust the laws
+to use S3QL with their Amazon S3 service</a>, because I trust the laws
in Iceland more than those in USA when it come to keeping my personal
data safe and private, and thus would rather spend money on a company
in Iceland. Another nice recipe is available from the article
<p>The file content is uploaded when the cache is full, while the
metadata is uploaded once every 24 hour by default. To ensure the
file system content is flushed to the cloud, one can either umount the
-file system, or ask s3ql to flush the cache and metadata using
+file system, or ask S3QL to flush the cache and metadata using
s3qlctrl:
<p><blockquote><pre>
a home directory (in other word, that it provided POSIX semantics when
it come to locking and umask handling etc). Running
<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Testing_if_a_file_system_can_be_used_for_home_directories___.html">my
-test code to check file system semantics, I was happy to discover that
+test code to check file system semantics</a>, I was happy to discover that
no error was found. So the file system can be used for home
directories, if one chooses to do so.</p>