PosixSyncFS vs s3fs-fuse

PosixSyncFS

PosixSyncFS is a set of Bash scripts that allow users to create a real POSIX filesystem and sync it to a remote storage bucket for backup and recovery purposes. (by lrvl)

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s3fs-fuse

FUSE-based file system backed by Amazon S3 (by s3fs-fuse)

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1	Mentions	57
4	Stars	8,079
-	Growth	0.9%
2.9	Activity	8.8
about 1 year ago	Latest Commit	17 days ago
Shell	Language	C++
MIT License	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

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PosixSyncFS

Posts with mentions or reviews of PosixSyncFS. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-14.

Mountpoint – file client for S3 written in Rust, from AWS
14 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Mar 2023

Upon reading this idea I created https://github.com/lrvl/PosixSyncFS - feel free to comment

s3fs-fuse

Posts with mentions or reviews of s3fs-fuse. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-19.

Is Posix Outdated?
3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Oct 2023

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 surfacing a POSIX that's actually there but hidden and thus visible to low-level Amazon employees building the S3 service which makes it invisible to S3 end customers is true but isn't the the point of the article. The author is saying there are motivations for a POSIX-like api visible also the end user.
So your explanation of 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
15 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Sep 2023
R2 slow PUT file transfer
1 project | /r/CloudFlare | 18 Jul 2023

sudo apt install build-essential libfuse-dev fuse git clone https://github.com/s3fs-fuse/s3fs-fuse.git cd s3fs-fuse sudo apt install libfuse2 sudo apt install libcurl4-openssl-dev sudo apt install libxml2-dev ./autogen.sh ./configure make
Cloud Backed SQLite
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Jul 2023
Podman and S3 Storage Driver (Audiobookshelf)
1 project | /r/selfhosted | 3 Jul 2023

Don’t know actually. Here is project page.
Uploading hundreds to thousands of files to S3
1 project | /r/aws | 10 May 2023
Linux Client for R2
1 project | /r/CloudFlare | 23 Apr 2023
s3fs-fuse - allows to mount your s3/minio bucket link to your local directory
3 projects | /r/engineering_stuff | 30 Mar 2023

s3fs-fuse
AWS Announces Open Source Mountpoint for Amazon S3
4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Mar 2023

How is this different than these other solutions?
https://github.com/kahing/goofys
https://github.com/s3fs-fuse/s3fs-fuse
Introducing Mountpoint for Amazon S3 - A file client that translates local file system API calls to S3 object API calls like GET and LIST.
4 projects | /r/aws | 14 Mar 2023

I don’t get it. Why not just improve https://github.com/s3fs-fuse/s3fs-fuse

What are some alternatives?

When comparing PosixSyncFS and s3fs-fuse you can also consider the following projects:

mountpoint-s3 - A simple, high-throughput file client for mounting an Amazon S3 bucket as a local file system.

goofys - a high-performance, POSIX-ish Amazon S3 file system written in Go

nfs-win - NFS for Windows

rclone - "rsync for cloud storage" - Google Drive, S3, Dropbox, Backblaze B2, One Drive, Swift, Hubic, Wasabi, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob, Azure Files, Yandex Files

azure-storage-fuse - A virtual file system adapter for Azure Blob storage

seekable-s3-stream - Code library that uses S3's API to provide an efficient random-access (seekable) Stream implementation for use in code where efficient network I/O is paramount.

jellyfin-webos - WebOS Client for Jellyfin

s3-upload-stream - Code library that provides a Stream implementation that makes working with uploads to S3 easier where the size of the content isn't known a priori. It holds only partial content in memory (works with large objects), and is compatible with code libraries that work with output streams.

jellyfin-tizen - Jellyfin Samsung TV Client

go-nfs-client - NFSv4 client written in Go

mediacms - MediaCMS is a modern, fully featured open source video and media CMS, written in Python/Django and React, featuring a REST API.