Flickrfs on Ubuntu
Flickrfs got blogged at Ubuntu:
http://ubuntu.wordpress.com/2005/11/08/using-flickrfs-on-ubuntu/
The blog contains the directions for how to install
flickrfs on Ubuntu, along with
bugs/feature requests. I checked them out as follows, and here are the
replies:
Uploading:
"I
tried creating a new Set and uploading new photos that belonged to
this set using the method mentioned by the author. Only the first photo
I copied got saved to the set, all the other were not included as a
part of the set, but were uploaded with the right tags just fine."
Fixed in v1.1
Browsing:
"Out
of 4 Sets that I have in Flickr, only two showed up locally. Dunno why."
Fixed
in v1.1
Downloading:
"I
tried to browse through the photos with the tags “background” and
“wallpaper” - some of the files that were in the
/media/tags/public/background:wallpaper were clearly not image files
(eg: a file named “08 03PV 16 11 32″, and I had to wait forever to be
able to see the images. Some files were .jpg files, and some had no
extension, but from the filename, I suppose they were image files.
Also, without seeing the image, how do you know how good it is? So, one
does have to wait for Flickr to return the photos. Pretty slow, even
over avery fast connection."
Well, the fs implementation is not meant for image browsing, and is
neither optimized for that. There is no caching involved, so as to keep
the memory usage to minimum. Regarding the download speed, it is
because the image being downloaded by flickrfs is maximum
size (large), while the
photos downloaded during browsing are lower resolution, thus less
download size.
The idea is to search for photos using tags etc. and then do a 'cp *
~/lemmecheck', while the photos are downloaded, you keep doing
something else.
The photos are named as per the title of photos. This may or may not
contain the extension of the originally uploaded photo.
Complaint
"All
the commands seem to be executed as the root user. FUSE is a
user-space filesystem tool, and I should think that flickrfs should
make it possible for normal users to browse pictures. Having to be
“root” to see the pictures and upload them leads to some inconvenience.
"
Currently, there is some problem with fuse while trying to mount the fs
as normal user. However, I have kept it on the list of 'To-Do's and,
will surely be providing a normal-user mountable flickrfs at some point
of time.
In case, you are looking for some error not listed here, or anywhere
else in documentation, please subscribe to the mailing list at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flickrfs-users and post it online.