# pingfs: Stores your data in ICMP ping packets

<https://github.com/yarrick/pingfs>

- Host: [github.com](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/github.com/)
- Saved: November 23, 2017 (2017-11-23T15:02:22Z)
- Record: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/534d1b6dd59d/
- JSON: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/534d1b6dd59d.json

## What Jamie wrote

This is completely bizarre -- a file system that stores the data in an [ICMP](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Control_Message_Protocol) packet stream ephemerally bouncing around via `ping`. 🤯

## Facts

- Kind: [Repository](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/repository/)
- Repository: yarrick/pingfs: Stores your data in ICMP ping packets
- About the repository: C, 3,597 stars, ISC, last push August 5, 2023
- Homepage: <https://code.kryo.se/pingfs/>

## Appears in

- [WT29: Weekly Thing for November 25, 2017](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/29/), Links 📌

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## Elsewhere

- Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://github.com/yarrick/pingfs