What does HackerNews think of s3fs-fuse?

Is POSIX really outdated? | Oct 2023

>... it might make you feel good to pretend that this is really just a variant of storage systems on your local NVMe unit, and that therefore the APIs involved really ought to converge. [...] The author needs to ask themselves: in this cloud technology stack, is there POSIX involved somewhere lower down, where I can't access it? The answer is, of course, "yes". The sort of cloud storage systems described all run on top of POSIX APIs. They provide convenience (cost efficiency is more debatable) compared to the POSIX alternative, but that's because they exist at an entirely different conceptual layer (hence the presence of POSIX anyway, just buried).

Your point about revealing a POSIX that's actually there but hidden and thus visible to low-level Amazon employees building the S3 service and invisible to S3 end customers is true but that isn't the the point of the article. The author is saying there are motivations for a POSIX-like api to also be visible to the end user.

So your explanation of the "hidden POSIX" stack looks like 2 layers: POSIX api <-- AWS S3 built on top of that

Author's essay is actually talking about 3 layers: POSIX <-- AWS S3 <-- POSIX

That's why the blog post has the following links to POSIX-on-top-of-S3-objects :

https://github.com/s3fs-fuse/s3fs-fuse

https://github.com/kahing/goofys

https://www.cuno.io/

Gcsfuse: A user-space file system for interacting with Google Cloud Storage | Sep 2023

There is s3fs-fuse as well for AWS S3. https://github.com/s3fs-fuse/s3fs-fuse

It even supports GCS (as GCS has S3 compatible API)

https://github.com/s3fs-fuse/s3fs-fuse/wiki/Google-Cloud-Sto...

Cloud Backed SQLite | Jul 2023

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https://github.com/s3fs-fuse/s3fs-fuse

Mountpoint – file client for S3 written in Rust, from AWS | Mar 2023

JungleDisk was backup software I used ~2009 that allowed mounting S3. They were bought by Rackspace and the product wasn't updated. Seems to be called/part of Cyberfortress now.

Later I used Panic's Transmit Disk but they removed the feature.

Recently I'd been looking at s3fs-fuse to use with gocryptfs but haven't actually installed it yet!

https://github.com/s3fs-fuse/s3fs-fuse

https://github.com/rfjakob/gocryptfs