Amazon S3 file system?
Matthew Flaschen
matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu
Thu Mar 12 15:23:31 UTC 2009
Denis Haskin wrote:
> 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?
There are some filesystems like
http://code.google.com/p/s3fs/wiki/FuseOverAmazon that do this, but
they're obviously arbitrarily limited. S3 has a maximize object size of
5 GB, so this approach means you won't be storing any dual-layer DVD
images. Further, where are you going to store directory metadata? It
seems like a waste to create a object for each directory.
Matt Flaschen
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