X-Git-Url: https://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/homepage.git/blobdiff_plain/0dc18e5b92e47db625b995fbb0070a411ae5bb90..2b90197f037d6c4372fd9df9b61c8f8e74630cea:/blog/archive/2014/04/04.rss diff --git a/blog/archive/2014/04/04.rss b/blog/archive/2014/04/04.rss index 2bace76284..7bc91647dc 100644 --- a/blog/archive/2014/04/04.rss +++ b/blog/archive/2014/04/04.rss @@ -15,8 +15,8 @@ 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 @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ package is included already. So to get started, run <tt>apt-get 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 @@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ Backend reports that fs is still mounted elsewhere, aborting. <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> @@ -270,7 +270,7 @@ check out the mounted S3QL file system to see if it would be usable as 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>