The best object storage filesystems, according to hackers
3 object storage filesystems recommended in Hacker News comments over the past year, ranked by how many separate people recommend each one.
All object storage filesystems
- ZeroFSRecommended as a POSIX filesystem on S3 alone, with no separate database; critics question its latency claims and call it risky for important data.14recommend
- Amazon S3 FilesLets AWS users treat S3 buckets as file systems, with a shared EFS cache and simpler workflows; critics note it is not POSIX and lacks atomic rename.9recommend
- s3fsMounts S3 buckets as local folders so ordinary file tools work. Critics say it lacks full POSIX semantics and is slow for heavy random access.5recommend