An engineer has created a system to run Linux from Google Drive
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Ersei's idea is to mount the actual file system over the network using Filesystem in Userspace (FUSE), which allows users to create their own file systems in steps 3 and 4 above. Since the temporary file system in step 3 above uses the kernel's initramfs , Ersei thought that all he had to do was install FUSE in the initramfs and configure the file system over the network.
As a proof of concept, Ersei started by customizing an initramfs using dracut , configuring it to connect to a local S3 bucket where he keeps his Arch Linux root, and booting Linux.
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Ersei Picks an Unusual Boot Device for This Arch Linux System: Google Drive - Hackster.io
Pseudonymous computer science student "Ersei" has created a Linux system that uses a Google Drive cloud storage system as its boot device.
"Competitiveness is a vice of mine. When I heard that a friend got Linux to boot off of NFS [Network File System], I had to one-up her," Ersei explains. "I had to prove that I could create something harder, something better, faster, stronger. "On the brink of insanity, my tattered mind unable to comprehend the twisted interplay of millennia of arcane programmer-time and the ragged screech of madness, I reached into the Mass and steeled myself to the ground lest I be pulled in, and found my magnum opus. Booting Linux off of a Google Drive root."
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Google Drive Now Bootable
USB drives are incredibly useful, both storing files for transport between different computers and for creating bootable drives that let us use or install other operating systems on our computers. While online file storage systems like Dropbox and Google Drive have taken over a large percentage of the former task from USB drives, they have not been able to act as bootable media, ensuring that each of us have a few jump drives lying around. That might not be the case anymore, though, as this guide is the first we know of to be able to use Google Drive to boot to a Linux system.