Amazon S3 file system?

[Dotan Cohen]

> There seem to be a plethora (well, at least a few) implementations of a file
> system backed by Amazon S3 (s3fs, s3fs-fuse, etc).  Recommendations pro/con?
>
> In particular, I was hoping to find one that *didn't* store the file system
> monolithically on S3, but the individual files, so they were still easily
> accessible from outside the filesystem.  Or maybe that's impossible, and I
> should be looking at mounting the S3 bucket via WebDAV?
>

I think that the fuse implementation just stores the files. I had
looked at it briefly once and I was able to access files on my S3
account that were uploaded with fuse, via some Firefox plugin that
gives an FTP-like interface to S3. Maybe they were in a particular
bucket, I don't remember.

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Dotan Cohen

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