cemheren / infinite

OSXFuse interface for Azure blob storage. Allows extending your Mac storage infinitely into cloud.

infinite

OSXFuse interface for Azure blob storage. Allows extending your Mac OS storage infinitely into cloud.

dependencies

fusepy

pip install fusepy

azure storage python libraries https://github.com/Azure/azure-storage-python

pip install azure

pip install azure-storage-blob

You also need to create an Azure storage account on https://portal.azure.com. I don't bother supporting s3 because Azure storage is significantly cheaper.

FUSE for Mac OS https://osxfuse.github.io/ Download the latest release.

why

1. For moving files to the cloud seamlessly. I mainly use these files for training ML models on cloud.
2. Dropbox is expensive :(. I want a place to store my files longer term. With Azure storage archive tier 100GB data costs < 0.2$ per month.
3. For learning FUSE which is cool.

how

Fill-in your Azure storage credentials in the beginning of creds.json. Create mount and cache folders whereever in your filesystem. Run the azurefiles.py with mount and cache folder arguments.

mkdir mount

mkdir cache

sudo python3 azurefiles.py cache mount

is it stable?

Somewhat. I wouldn't try it on anything you won't be ok with losing.

screenshots

Sample blob I've been experimenting on, supports somewhat harder scenarios such as preview.

notes

This project is not affiliated with Microsoft or Azure. It's by any means not supported officially.