yarrick/pingfs
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Stores your data in ICMP ping packets
32 mentions on Hacker News by 31 people: 7 stories, 25 comments · first 2015-06-04 · latest 2026-04-22
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How about swap on pingfs so you aren't relying on some cloud provider? https://github.com/yarrick/pingfs
comment by askl · 2026-04-22 · in Making RAM at Home [video] -
Waiting for Doom over https://github.com/yarrick/pingfs next
comment by nasretdinov · 2026-03-26 · in DOOM Over DNS -
Excellent for pingfs ( https://github.com/yarrick/pingfs )
comment by kevincox · 2026-03-05 · in World-first gigabit laser link between aircraft and geostationary satellite -
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Pingfs: Stores your data in ICMP ping packets (2020)story by linkdd · 2025-12-14 · 26 comments
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…That's just from the top of my head, and it really shows that sky's the limit with software. [0] https://github.com/yarrick/pingfs [1] https://github.com/ajeetdsouza/pifs [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganographic_file_system [3]…
comment by npteljes · 2025-08-28 · in Anything can be a message queue if you use it wrongly enough (2023) -
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pingfs: A filesystem where data is stored in ICMP Echo packetsstory by voxadam · 2025-05-06 · 0 comments
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For prior art in this field, see: https://github.com/yarrick/pingfs "pingfs is a filesystem where the data is stored only in the Internet itself, as ICMP Echo packets (pings) travelling from you to remote servers and back again." Also…
comment by ujikoluk · 2024-10-22 · in First images from Euclid are in -
…pings made me remember pingfs [1]. It brings an entirely new definition of cloud computing! [1] - https://github.com/yarrick/pingfs
comment by AndroidKitKat · 2023-09-11 · in How does Linux NAT a ping? -
https://github.com/yarrick/pingfs > pingfs is a filesystem where the data is stored only in the Internet itself, as ICMP Echo packets (pings) travelling from you to remote servers and back again.
comment by kalleboo · 2023-06-29 · in Happy 50th Birthday, Ethernet -
Reminds me of https://github.com/yarrick/pingfs
comment by WASDx · 2022-10-24 · in Record-breaking chip can transmit 1.8 petabits per second -
…today. Just target a remote server and run pingfs. Store your data in the transatlantic fibres! https://github.com/yarrick/pingfs
comment by fellerts · 2022-10-24 · in Record-breaking chip can transmit 1.8 petabits per second -
https://github.com/yarrick/pingfs
comment by arccy · 2022-06-29 · in When network is faster than browser cache (2020) -
https://github.com/yarrick/pingfs
comment by c22 · 2022-05-12 · in X-Clacks-Overhead -
There's some prior art for the ping-based storage: https://github.com/yarrick/pingfs , but the tetris storage is amazing.
comment by rcxdude · 2022-04-13 · in Harder Drive: Hard drives we didn't want or need [video] -
Well, if you can store data in icmp packets, I bet you can do math, too. https://github.com/yarrick/pingfs
comment by kortex · 2021-01-09 · in Ray Tracing in pure CMake -
See pingfs. It stores data on ICMP packets. https://github.com/yarrick/pingfs
comment by Ayesh · 2020-10-22 · in Vint Cerf’s Plan for Building An Internet in Space -
Oh damn. For a second there I confused IPFS with pingfs: https://github.com/yarrick/pingfs Not the same thing, not the same thing at all...
comment by andsens · 2020-05-10 · in Wikipedia-IPFS: An exploration to host Wikipedia in IPFS -
Reminds me of pingfs: https://github.com/yarrick/pingfs
comment by nikeee · 2020-03-30 · in Sorting 1M 8-digit numbers in 1 MB of RAM (2012) -
…the data is in the latency of the network, whereas here the money is in the latency of the banks. 1 https://github.com/yarrick/pingfs
comment by hetspookjee · 2019-09-27 · in MyPayrollHR CEO Arrested, Admits to $70M Fraud -
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PingFS: Store your data in ping packetsstory by vincent_s · 2019-07-15 · 0 comments
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PingFS: Stores your data in ICMP ping packetsstory by robertheadley · 2019-05-15 · 0 comments
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At least it's more efficient than PingFS[0] [0] https://github.com/yarrick/pingfs
comment by codefined · 2018-04-07 · in T-Mobile Austria admits to storing plaintext passwords on Twitter -
Hence https://github.com/yarrick/pingfs :)
comment by icebraining · 2017-12-25 · in Computer latency: 1977-2017 -
…looked at the read path, which is roughly: * filesystem receives read * blocks on a semaphore ( https://github.com/yarrick/pingfs/blob/master/chunk.c#L141 ) * network thread wakes up semaphore when ICMP reply containing data is received *…
comment by chillaxtian · 2017-10-24 · in Pingfs: A filesystem where data is stored as ICMP Echo packets (2016) -
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Pingfs: A filesystem where data is stored as ICMP Echo packets (2016)story by signa11 · 2017-10-24 · 44 comments
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Data stored "on the wire"? :D pingfs - Stores your data in ICMP ping packets https://github.com/yarrick/pingfs https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9844725 There should be a Rule 34 for insane software ideas :)
comment by icebraining · 2017-03-15 · in Show HN: FaunaDB, a strongly consistent, globally distributed cloud database -
Of the more obscure file systems, pingfs is still my favorite. https://github.com/yarrick/pingfs
comment by torvald · 2017-03-14 · in πfs – A data-free filesystem -
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Pingfs – store your data in ICMP packages (Ping as a Storage)story by rbanffy · 2016-12-20 · 0 comments
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Sounds like PingFS. https://github.com/yarrick/pingfs
comment by fennecfoxen · 2015-07-16 · in Three Dead Protocols -
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Pingfs – a filesystem where the data is stored only ICMP Echo packetsstory by pykello · 2015-07-07 · 41 comments
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I like this one: https://github.com/yarrick/pingfs
comment by leni536 · 2015-06-05 · in RedditStorage -
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:786NsZY... and https://github.com/yarrick/pingfs OT: Let archive.org save your pages, people!
comment by voltagex_ · 2015-06-04 · in RedditStorage