SAFE as a mountable disk (safe-vfs): First version

[happybeing]

Hey, Louis / @JohnVonNeumann there’s a very useful little job for a Ruby Dev, to update SAFE-VFS to work in the new API. @anon71598723 hasn’t time to update it, but it would be fantastic to have this ready for alpha2 if you want to take a look at these two posts:

SAFE Drive mounter for Windows, Mac, Linux

Join me in pleading with @anon71598723 to update his SAFE-VFS for the new API. It was awesome, or if Daniel hasn’t time to do it maybe somebody else can take it on. Any plans Daniel?

SAFE Drive mounter for Windows, Mac, Linux

As much as I am excited for playing with the new API, unfortunately, I can’t do it right now. I’m too busy with work. To make safe-vfs work again, it’s necessary to completely re-write the “ruby-safenet” lib using FFI bindings (“safe_client_libs”). As you may know, I wrote it in Ruby and the only Ruby lib available is outdated. Right now the only updated libraries are NodeJS and Rust. So, to make it work again, it will be necessary to: a) update the Ruby lib; or b) to write a new…

I’m afraid I have form here, trying to interest somebody in picking up SAFE-VFS but here’s why, this blew my mind:

SAFE as a mountable disk (safe-vfs): First version

I just uploaded a new version. The last one I think. It enables the ability to create websites. How to create a website: # website files mkdir public/my-dir echo “Hello world!” > public/my-dir/index.html # publishing mkdir dns/my-app ln -s public/my-dir dns/my-app/www Then, open safe://www.my-app, you will see your “Hello world!”. PS: Please let me know if you find a bug on it (here or on GitHub).

[JohnVonNeumann]

Haha hey @happybeing, cheers for the tag. It appears I’m quickly being accepted into this community. I’m happy to have a look but haven’t worked with Ruby in a while and to be fair, it’s not my focus when it comes to languages. If it was in Python you’d probably stand a better chance of getting me onto this, but I think it would take me a while to get upto scratch just to start being able to work on it.

[Josh]

@happybeing

there’s a very useful little job for a Ruby Dev, to update SAFE-VFS to work in the new API. @loureirorg hasn’t time to update it, but it would be fantastic to have this ready for alpha2 if you want to take a look at these two posts:

@brianp have you seen this… hint hint nudge nudge.

[happybeing]

That’s two nudges, I sent him a PM earlier too.

No pressure though

[brianp]

@Josh

@brianp have you seen this… hint hint nudge nudge.

Hah! message received.

@happybeing I’m going to PM you.

[jlpell]

Finding this thread was like getting an early Christmas present. I’ve been doing my homework looking at what already exists after I started thinking about trying to implement something similar via python. Great work @anon71598723 ! From a linux perspective, this is a fundamental and critical app. Any other fuse based options out there for SAFE? Eventually one would want some kind of safe-vfs or “safe-ipfs” integrated right into the linux kernel just like ext4 or orangefs…
A similar project that could be used for inspiration is S3Backer. It does something similar but uses Amazon S3 to store encrypted chunks…

[happybeing]

It’s such a shame that safe-vfs hasn’t been maintained (it doesn’t work with alpha 2) because yes, it’s both very useful, and a great way to demonstrate the power of SAFEnetwork.

Is a great opportunity for someone to pick this up - Ruby skills needed!

[happybeing]

See also this guy’s new SAFE-VFS!

SAFE Drive - mount your SAFE storage as virtual drive

[jlpell]

Very nice! Thank you again! I haven’t had much time to make a lot of progress with Safely, but your recent contributions will definitely accelerate things when I have more time in July. I was debating between MIT or GPL3, but will likely follow your lead. Cheers!

[Traktion]

I was working on another version in java, but sadly that is on hold while the bindings aren’t available.

[Nigel]

@Traktion

while the bindings aren’t available.

Soon though, yeah?

[Traktion]

@Nigel

Soon though, yeah?

Ha! So they tell us!